Does anyone know how many Christians died in Hitler's camps?

Question

I know that several did , both Catholic and Protestant. Any information would help. I am familiar with the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe and I know there are more stories like his.

Answer 1

Hello david m.. :)

Whether they were Christian, Jew or non-believers..even just one, was too many to have to die a horrible death, such as they did.. :(


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)

Answer 2

Here is an interesting video about the oldest living holocaust survivor...http://cbs2.com/video/?id=[e-mail]

Also, many don't realize that some 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses were holocaust victims as well. Unlike Jews and Roma (Gypsies), whom the Nazis targeted for perceived racial reasons, Jehovah's Witnesses had the option to avoid persecution and personal harm by submitting to state authority and serving in the armed forces. Since such submission would violate their religious beliefs, the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses refused to abandon their faith even in the face of persecution, torture in concentration camps, or death.

By 1939, an estimated 6,000 Witnesses (including some from Austria and Czechoslovakia) were detained in prisons or camps. Others fled Germany, continued their religious observance in private, or ceased to observe altogether. Some Witnesses were tortured in attempts to make them sign declarations renouncing their faith, but few capitulated to this pressure.

Here is the site to the holocaust memorial museum with more info on it: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

It's a very interesting site.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. Actions against the religious group and its individual members spanned the Nazi years 1933 to 1945. Unlike Jews and Sinti and Roma "Gypsies"), persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs. The courage the vast majority displayed in refusing to do so, in the face of torture, maltreatment in concentration camps, and sometimes execution, won them the respect of many contemporaries.
From 1935 onward, Jehovah's Witnesses faced a Nazi campaign of nearly total persecution. On April 1, 1935, the group was banned nationally by law. The same year, Germany reintroduced compulsory military service. For refusing to be drafted or perform war-related work, and continuing to meet, Jehovah's Witnesses were arrested and incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps. In 1935 some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
In the Nazi years, about 10,000 Witnesses were imprisoned in concentration camps, most of them of German nationality. After 1939, small numbers of Witnesses from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland (some of them refugees from Germany) were arrested and deported to Dachau, Bergqn-Belsen, Buchenwald, Sachsen-hausen, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and other concentration camps. An estimated 2,500 to 5,000 Witnesses died in the camps or prisons. More than 200 men were tried by the German War Court and executed for refusing military service.

Answer 4

I don't know , but excellent question!
I do know a good many died in Japanese labor camps.
and also the Germans took great pains in accurate record keeping,some of which helped put the rope around their necks at Nuremberg,

Answer 5

There were nearly as many Christians died in the death camps as Jews, they were just not as publicized.

Answer 6

With six million Jews gassed and subsequently dying,i think christians were fewer.

Answer 7

I don't think anyone "really" knows, estimates vary far too much.

They didn't keep records remember.

Answer 8

that's a joke trick question..right?

like..how many people are dead in that cemetery?
answer..ALL OF THEM

yes, Max is a good yarn spinner too..and he sure has some good ones..good men are always around when you need them..God Bless YOU

Answer 9

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