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Jehovah's witnesses died under hitlers regime

it seems every one only cares about the jews that died,jehovahs witnesses choose to be faithful to their god,ask a catholic if they would die for their faith 99.9 % would say no i bet u.did u know the amount of jews that died was less then how many jehovah's witnesses died.

Taken from the "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a pamphlet titled "JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES".


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

http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/PurpleTriangle.html

Answer 1

Yes and it's so sad to see how this is often overlooked. The Witnesses were thrown into the concentration camps because they were the ones that were brave enough to defy Hitler and to refuse to heil Hitler [while the church blessed the troops and Hitler!!]. There are a couple good books about the persecution of JW during Hitler's regime that I purchased online via amazon.com ... they are stories written by witnesses [who are still faithful] that endured that horrible persecution. One of them is called "The Crucible of Terror" and the one that I'm currently reading which is titled "Unbroken Will" ... the first book left me sobbing, let's see what this one does to me :) I've included the websites for the books below in case you want to order/check them out!!

Thanks for bringing this up...

Answer 2

Alright! Now you've put it out there. We have photographs of the Jewish holocaust victims......can you come up with any photographic evidence of the jehovahwitness-o-caust?

I suggest it might be a bit like the accounts of all the trillions of "christians thrown to the lions" from Roman times.

Historically, we know that the "persecution" of the christians as an entity lasted about 5 years in total - that's 1 year (year 256) under Emperor Decius, a break of a couple of years when they were tolerated, another year (year 259 under Emperor Valerian), a break of about four years when everyone thought Christians were OK, and once more between years 303-305 under Emperor Diocletian.

Given those "facts", even the "Great Persecution" under Diocletian was wildly exaggerated by the Christian propagandists. In all that time, the "few" Christians who died for their faith were "easily numbered" (according to Origen), and in the persecutions of Decius, we can account for only 10 men and 7 women who suffered for being Christian.

So....your point is ?

Answer 3

I did my 9th grade term paper on that very subject....

Good post.

Jehovah's Witnesses were the only group that COULD HAVE been freed from the concentration camps. All they had to do was sign a paper renouncing their faith and they would have been free to go. 99% of the Witnesses remained faithful.


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I agree ... I don't think more JWs died than Jews, though.

Answer 4

No, really? I had no idea. -note sarcasm-

I learned about ALL of the types of people who were persecuted. Did you know that they would perform operations of twin children, while they were still awake?

opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs -Umm... I seriously doubt that even if they renounced their faith that they would be let go.

Jews that died was less then how many Jehovah's witnesses died. -So, over 6 million died? I doubt it. And you left out homosexuals, disabled people, and anyone else that Hitler decided that needed to die. So, you STILL haven't looked at the whole picture.

Go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and actually learn things before preaching to me about how I don't care about the others who die.

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses were the only group that COULD HAVE been freed from the concentration camps. All they had to do was sign a paper renouncing their faith and they would have been free to go. 99% of the Witnesses remained faithful.

this is an actual fact

Answer 6

Did I know? Yes, but your statement about the number of JWs who died is false. Six million Jews died, as well as untold numbers of gypsies, homosexuals, mentally impaired, handicapped, blind, Russians many of whom were atheists, the state religion of Joseph Stalin's era, and Christians of every denomination.

No one suffered as much as the Jews. Hitler's final solution if successful would have murdered every Jew on the planet. Hitler like Haman failed. Today we have a new Hitler on the horizon in Iran, who is enriching uranium for "peaceful" purposes and saying the holocaust "never Happened."

Answer 7

I guess you don't know that millions of Christians died along side Jews. They died in defiance of Hitler's Evil. In his book POLAND'S HOLOCAUST Edward Lucaire reveals that of the 6 million killed three million were Polish Christians. He goes on to say that these who "risked their lives to save the lives of Jews." have been all but forgotten.. Never the less there were many brave Christian people and most of them were Catholic... Jim

Answer 8

Yes, of course, I know that JWs died in the Holocaust, as did Jews, Gypsies, gays, the disabled, several Roman Catholic saints, and other dissenters to the Nazi regime. It's not exactly a secret.

Answer 9

>>Did you know???? Jehovah's witnesses died under hitlers regime<<

Yes.

>>ask a catholic if they would die for their faith 99.9 % would say no i bet u.<<

I would die for my Catholic faith.

>>did u know the amount of jews that died was less then how many jehovah's witnesses died.<<

Sorry, not even close:

"The number of Jehovah's Witnesses who died in concentration camps and prisons during the Nazi era is estimated at 1,000 Germans and 400 from other countries, including about 90 Austrians and 120 Dutch. (The non-German Jehovah's Witnesses suffered a considerably higher percentage of deaths than their German co-religionists.) In addition, about 250 German Jehovah's Witnesses were executed -- mostly after being tried and convicted by military tribunals -- for refusing to serve in the German military."
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394

Answer 10

Jehovah's Witnesses endured terrible persecution at the hand of Hitler's Satanic agents.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20030301/
http://watchtower.org/e/19980708/
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcfi_e.htm