Could or would the German people have been able to defeat Hitler's forces if they had kept their guns?

Question

I have been offered the outlawing of privately owned weapons in Nazi Germany as a reason to oppose gun control in the US. But I am wondering how much difference it would have made if guns had not been outlawed.

Answer 1

The german people were Hitler's forces so how could they defeat themselves.
Hitler was elected by a democratic process and only abused democracy once he got into power like George W. Bush and I don't see any armed americans rising up against him.

Answer 2

Concerning some of the answers given here,Hitler was NOT
elected in a democrate election´s process.He was NOT pronounced as chancellor by the german parliament.He was
appointed by an old,senile president.And after having this power,
Hitler abolished all the parties besides the naziparty,the unions
were abolished as well as the students´fraternities.
Private owned guns in Europe was and is illegal,except of
certified hunters,and a few certified bodyguards.The only
chance to get rid of him was a riot,as some officers tried on
july,20,1944.But failed,unfortunately.

Answer 3

Hitler was elected by an undisputable majority. There was never at any time any kind of significant German anti-Nazi "underground."

And the statement "if they had kept their guns" is misleading. Private firearm ownership in most European countries (such as Germany) during the early 20th century was pretty much limited to weapons for hunting and weapons owned by criminals.

(in fact, there is little or no tradition of private gun ownership in western Europe).

Answer 4

The German people liked Hitler when he came onto their political scene. He was going to undo all the injustices done to the German people after WW I and the Treaty of Versailles (Germany alone was forced to accept responsibility for causing the war and had to pay huge war reparations for all the damage. Germany also had to give up land to France and Poland. The German Army was limited to 100,000 men and was forbidden to have submarines or military aircraft).

Answer 5

At the time,Germany was going thru a Depression of it's own due to the overwhelming debt owed to the Allies for war reparations. It's a theory that if the amount owed had been cut in half,Germany would have been able to pay it,the Depression wouldn't have happened in the U.S. and Europe and most of all Hitler wouldn't have had the opportunity to rise to power.

Answer 6

I'm not sure the "German" people wanted to defeat Hitler's forces, since Hitler's forces were GERMAN.

Answer 7

Too many imponderables. You'd have to imagine a different German history and a different German people. Germans are not and were not just Americans who talk funny.

Answer 8

Research the Warsaw ghetto uprising and you will see that a small group of jews was able to get arms, and held out for quite a long time compared to how many people were looking for them.

Answer 9

You seem to be confused... you see, the German people LIKED Hitler.

Answer 10

in all the old footage i see-i see a whole nation out there saluting that guy