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In reply to the discussion: The Journal News has hurt any hope for gun reform. [View all]datasuspect
(26,591 posts)i normally don't even make a comment to someone who reflexively farts "GODWINS LAW GODWINS LAW GODWINS LAW!!1111" whenever the third reich or hitler is mentioned.
but to answer your question: Hitler's lists (for lack of a better term) were comprehensive and part of the organizational ethos of the german government and military at that time. i forget the title of it, but for the invasion of britain, the state security apparatus published booklets with names of prominent Britons to be arrested.
they listed people: trade unionists, communists, professors, literary types, showmen, actors, musicians, business owners, etc.
they also had bills of lading that listed the human cargo they moved around europe to the death camps.
some NPO published some of these lists. rows and rows of names, towns, cities, villages or origin, profession/job, dates.
they were manifests for rail transports to buchenwald.
long story short: freedom loving people don't seek circumscription of existing freedoms.