Why did the nazis marked the jw's just like the jews.A STAR.How many jws died in ww2 EXTERMINATION camps?

Answer 1

They did not.

They used the purple triangle to mark Jehovah's Witnesses.

To identify prisoners in the camps according to their "offense", they were required to wear colored triangles on their clothing. Although the colors used differed from camp to camp, the colors most commonly were:

* Yellow: Jews -- two overlaid to form a Star of David, with the word "Jude" (Jew) inscribed
* Red: political dissidents, including communists
* Green: common criminals
* Purple: Jehovah's Witnesses
* Blue: immigrants
* Brown: Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)
* Black: Lesbians and "anti-socials"
* Pink: Gay men

Around 2000 Jehovah's Witnesses perished in concentration camps, where they were held for political and ideological reasons, as they refused involvement in politics, would not say "Heil Hitler" and did not serve in the German army.

Answer 2

Actually, the Nazis forced Jehovah's Witnesses to wear a purple triangle.

Unsurprisingly, Jehovah's Witnesses was the ONLY religion to be designated for persecution by the Nazis ("Jewish" was an ethnicity). Almost unanimously, Jehovah's Witnesses refused to compromise Christian principles for Hitler or any human.

While Jehovah's Witnesses remained cohesive and determined for over a decade of concentration camp horrors, it is true that an unknown number were killed by the Nazis. Jehovah's Witnesses themselves have documented over a thousand names of those Witnesses killed in Nazi concentration camps.

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

Answer 3

As the others pointed out, they didn't exactly. They used a Purple Triangle. There are a few documentaries out there that go in to detail on that fact.

I am fuzzy on the estimated number of those killed.

I can say this much, it was too many, and that is even if only one was killed.

I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses.