Many of them were in the camps because they wouldn't sign a document saying that they would renounce their faith to Jehovah.....no longer be Jehovah's Witnesses. We have a video called: The Purple Triangle Witnesses in the Concentration Camps
2007-10-04 19:12:16 · 17 answers · asked by ladybugwith7up 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bluestick,
go to http://www.watchtower.org or if any of your relatives are Witnesses ask them if they have the video. Or go to your local Kingdom Hall or just ask one of the Witnesses on the Religion & Spirituality forum! It was also in one of the Watchtowers a couple years ago.
2007-10-04 19:22:19 · update #1
Yeah I know that many other groups were in the camps also! I just thought that you wanted to know! Hitler also banned the Witnesses when he was in power but they met in secret while under the ban.
2007-10-04 19:26:44 · update #2
Who ever wants to see the Video here it is and I hope you like it!
Jehovah's Witnesses
Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault
http://www.jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcfi_e.htm
As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. In this video, 10 historians from Europe and North America, and more than 20 Witness survivors, join in relating a story of courage and triumph that must be told.
2007-10-04 19:31:06 · update #3
Ishvarla, I'll try it on www.360.yahoo.com
2007-10-05 02:45:42 · update #4
In addition to the sources by Jehovah's Witnesses containing this information, it has also been well documented by others.
For example, the link below will take you to Jehovahs Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi Era on the Web Site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Begining on this page, you can go on to further information.
2007-10-05 01:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Internment of Jehovah Witnesses was used as a test that opened the door for the Nazis to expand concentration camps to those other peoples. Since they got away with herding up JW's, they went on going after larger groups. However, I would be mindful of overpromoting Nazi activity and symbols. The purple triangle in that context should be viewed in the same way as the swastika. It is of no value.
2007-10-04 19:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Pint 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup I did. Honestly this seems a posting more fitting for http://www.360.yahoo.com
Meanwhile, several on here have said things ranging from, We are Nazis, to we should've been wiped out by them. What's funny is recently, both things were in answers to the same question.
Also as many have mentioned other groups were also quaranteed for thier actions or genetic heritage.
2007-10-04 23:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here is some more information for you. In the Mid-West of America, many small towns ran Jehovah's Witnesses out of their towns by force because they refused to serve in the military. I know this because I live in one of those small towns and I am related to people that ran them out.
I don't condone this but I thought you might be interested.
2007-10-04 19:21:19 · answer #4 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So were Catholics, Lutherans, and other Christians for the same reasons, as well as they would not stop condemning the Nazi governments anti-Jewish policies. And then there were also homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities whom the Nazis wanted to get rid of just to ensure racial purity.
It's an interesting fact you mention, but what does it mean?
2007-10-04 19:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
virtually all of them. Hitler had a particular dislike approximately Witnesses, probable their pacifism blended with their unusual ideals approximately blood. Hitler disliked pacifists for glaring motives, yet he additionally had his own eccentricity approximately blood - so the Witnesses met him right now on. Hitler additionally had a particular dislike for Nudists. The FreiKoerperKultur circulation grew to become into between the 1st firms to be proscribed whilst the Nazis got here to capability. merely because of the fact Hitler grew to become into evil, does not propose he wasn't stupid with it.
2016-11-07 07:46:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jews were not the only ones in the camps. Gypsies, Christians, dissentors, criminals, and anyone else who didn't fit in with Nazi Germany were sent there, too.
2007-10-04 19:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by kdanley 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I knew that. There were, of course, many different groups sent to the concentration camps.
2007-10-04 19:18:19 · answer #8 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes I know and the video is very educational.
2007-10-04 19:17:49 · answer #9 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt be at all surprised,,those buggers will pop up anywhere wont they ! they'll still be around with the cockroaches at the end of time when we are all dust !!
2007-10-04 19:28:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋