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Article: Zwischen Widerstand und Martyrium: Die Zeugen Jehovas im "Dritten Reich."
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
- Author:
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This thorough Ph.D-dissertation can be considered the first comprehensive historiography of the fate of the Jehovah's Witnesses (hereafter JWs) in Germany during the Nazi-regime. Based on war records and complemented by interviews with JW survivors of concentration camps, the author presents an exhaustive study of a harrowing episode of religious persecution.
The book consists of six parts. The first introductory section portrays origins and early development of the Watchtower Society in Germany. Part two begins in 1933, the year Hitler took power, and ends in 1935. This period, characterized by the organization's futile attempts to accommodate to the regime's ...