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Question: Is the following an authentic Hitler quotation?
"This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
-- Adolph Hitler, 1935
Answer: No, it's a hoax. At least, nobody has been able to verify it. For more information, see:
GunCite - Gun Control: Bogus gun control quotes
GunCite: The Myth of Nazi Gun Control
The following is authentic:
Der größte Unsinn, den man in den besetzen Ostgebieten machen könnte, sei der, den unterworfenen Völkern Waffen zu geben. Die Geschichte lehre, daß alle Herrenvölker untergegangen seien, nachdem sie den von ihnen unterworfenen Volkern Waffen bewilligt hatten.
[The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.]
-- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942. [Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951)
A related article: "Nazi Firearms Laws and the Disarming of the German Jews", by Stephen Halbroook:
http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.pdf (Requires Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader or similar). File also available here on JPFO.
It's fake.
Biggest clue is the 1935 date. The law that supposedly was also the basis for our GCA of 1968 didn't exist until 1938. The previous law had been in effect since 1928.
Here's what the Jews For the Preservation of Firearm Ownership have to say about it,
The JPFO FAQ Page
You sir are well educated. Good going
It's fake.
Biggest clue is the 1935 date. The law that supposedly was also the basis for our GCA of 1968 didn't exist until 1938. The previous law had been in effect since 1928.
Here's what the Jews For the Preservation of Firearm Ownership have to say about it,
The JPFO FAQ Page
Kudos for looking it up after being corrected.I've seen this for a while... quoted it once myself and had someone correct me. So I had to look it up myself.