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Jehovah's Witnesses suffered religious persecution in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 after refusing to perform military service, join Nazi organizations, or give allegiance to the Hitler regime. An estimated 10,000 Witnesses were sent to Nazi concentration camps .
Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault; US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary "Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies "Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933–45, by Johannes S. Wrobel, Religion, State and Society vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2006 ...
In 1933, there were approximately 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany, [353] of whom about 10,000 were imprisoned. Jehovah's Witnesses suffered religious persecution by the Nazis because they refused military service and allegiance to Hitler's National Socialist Party.
Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in China are considered illegal. Former Canadian-American Jehovah's Witness missionary Amber Scorah recounted the lengths that she and her husband went through to preach illegally in China in the early 2000s. She describes how local Jehovah's Witnesses were forced to meet secretly in a different location every ...
Jehovah’s Witnesses faced history of persecution in Germany. 03:00, Josh Marcus. Jehovah’s Witnesses, like a variety of minorities in Germany, were targeted for persecution by the Nazis, as ...
Referenced in the January 1, 1977 Watchtower, page 11 and the 1979 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 94. Publisher: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7705-1340-9 (Canada, 1976) Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses by M. James Penton. Penton, who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Lethbridge, examines the history ...
Deaths were reported Thursday after shots were fired at a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, Germany, police said. Authorities said several people were injured, some fatally, in a ...
MUNICH — A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in the German city of Hamburg killed seven people, as well as the suspected gunman, police said Friday.