Not a good summary. About half the points are false or misleading.
They only made a carpet ban of guns in occupied territories (where the standing orders of the OKW and friends made it a death sentence for civilians to possess a firearm or grenade). Within the Reich proper they advanced on pre-Nazi gun registration, basically criminalizing ownership by “undesirables” and making ownership contingent on political allegiance but not outlawing it. Halbrook’s Gun Control and the Third Reich covers this best
Got rid of God: Hitler and his close circle certainly tries, but they recognized direct confrontation with Christian churches was suicide (and indeed even some fanatical Nazis like Erich Koch remained more or less orthodox Christians). So they instead sought to undermine and rot away the foundations of God and his moral code in favor of thinly or not so thinly veiled neopaganism.
*Banned church service: Not true, sadly. The Nazis persecuted unauthorized church services, but just like we have no shortage of false shepherds or state churches today like in ChiCom China and with “Rev”s like Warnock and Wo-amen, there were plenty of German churches and services that sold out. Hence why German chaplains and church services continued through to the very end of the war.
Burned Bibles and Books in the street: true, for once.
Tore down statues : also true.
Burned the flag: they did something way more insidious. They slowly legislated the flag out of existence until there was only the Parteiflag, first banning the Republican Tricolor and putting the Imperial Tricolor and Swastika on equal levels, and then banning the Tricolor. Hitler and co might be socialist idiots but they were patriotic socialist idiots and also- unlike ours- recognized how distasteful and horrifying mass burnings of National flags would be.
Got rid of any and all history that disagreed: true.
*Got rid of the public police so only the rich could afford it: LOL fuck no, and this smells like attempts to pint the Nazis as something other than statist socialists
Not only did the Nazis not get rid of public police, they greatly expanded their powers and subordinated them to Party command. For instance the Prussian State Police became the Gestapo.
And no amount of “riches” could legally help you if you ran afoul of the Parry as Hugo Eckner showed.
Put their country in a state of fear: true.
*Created Domestic Terrorist organizations: true.
Understand the enemy. A lot of times the threats are far more insidious and subtle. Forearmed is forewarned. Especially since we have seen a lot of this shot being imitated by others.
Not a good summary. About half the points are false or misleading.
They only made a carpet ban of guns in occupied territories (where the standing orders of the OKW and friends made it a death sentence for civilians to possess a firearm or grenade). Within the Reich proper they advanced on pre-Nazi gun registration, basically criminalizing ownership by “undesirables” and making ownership contingent on political allegiance but not outlawing it. Halbrook’s Gun Control and the Third Reich covers this best
Got rid of God: Hitler and his close circle certainly tries, but they recognized direct confrontation with Christian churches was suicide (and indeed even some fanatical Nazis like Erich Koch remained more or less orthodox Christians). So they instead sought to undermine and rot away the foundations of God and his moral code in favor of thinly or not so thinly veiled neopaganism.
*Banned church service: Not true, sadly. The Nazis persecuted unauthorized church services, but just like we have no shortage of false shepherds or state churches today like in ChiCom China and with “Rev”s like Warnock and Wo-amen, there were plenty of German churches and services that sold out. Hence why German chaplains and church services continued through to the very end of the war.
Burned Bibles and Books in the street: true, for once.
Tore down statues : also true.
Burned the flag: they did something way more insidious. They slowly legislated the flag out of existence until there was only the Parteiflag, first banning the Republican Tricolor and putting the Imperial Tricolor and Swastika on equal levels, and then banning the Tricolor. Hitler and co might be socialist idiots but they were patriotic socialist idiots and also- unlike ours- recognized how distasteful and horrifying mass burnings of National flags would be.
Got rid of any and all history that disagreed: true.
*Got rid of the public police so only the rich could afford it: LOL fuck no, and this smells like attempts to pint the Nazis as something other than statist socialists
Not only did the Nazis not get rid of public police, they greatly expanded their powers and subordinated them to Party command. For instance the Prussian State Police became the Gestapo.
And no amount of “riches” could legally help you if you ran afoul of the Parry as Hugo Eckner showed.
*Created Domestic Terrorist organizations: true.
Understand the enemy. A lot of times the threats are far more insidious and subtle. Forearmed is forewarned. Especially since we have seen a lot of this shot being imitated by others.