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The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis : persecution, deportation, and murder, 1933-1945
Bibelforscher et le nazisme, 1933-1945. English
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"As pacifists and citizens of "Jehovah's Kingdom," the Witnesses refused to swear allegiance to any world government, to contribute in the smallest way to the military, or to stop their active recr...
"As pacifists and citizens of "Jehovah's Kingdom," the Witnesses refused to swear allegiance to any world government, to contribute in the smallest way to the military, or to stop their active recruiting of converts. Because of their beliefs and their uncompromising integrity, Hitler viewed them as ideological foes of the Third Reich and targeted them for persecution, deportation, and murder." "The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis is the first history in English to detail in the words of the Witnesses the course of their clash with Hitler and his SS."--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard ; translated by James A. Moorhouse ; introduction by Michael Berenbaum
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- English
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- First Cooper Square Press edition
- New York : Cooper Square Press : Distributed by National Book Network, 2001
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- xxvi, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 081541076X, 9780815410768
- OCLC
- ocm45559015
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- From a Letter from Thomas Mann xiii -- From a Letter from Germaine Tillion xv -- Symbols of Persecution xix -- 1. Nazi Takeover 1 -- 2. Enemy Identified 11 -- 3. If We Are Ready to Answer "Yes" 17 -- 4. Do Not Submit to the Powers of Man 21 -- 5. Assembly at Basel 25 -- 6. Survival 29 -- 7. "Negroes" in Europe 33 -- 8. Der Anstreicher 41 -- 9. You Are Accused of Ten Thousand Crimes: You Know Nothing 45 -- 10. "Alle Jugend dem Führer" 49 -- 11. A Lynching of Consciences 55 -- 12. Families Destroyed 59 -- 13. Church and the State 63 -- 14. 1937, the Year of "Ordinary" Oppression 69 -- 15. Concentration Camps 79 -- 16. Invasion of Austria and the Plebiscite 85 -- 17. Austrians in the Spiral of Oppression 91 -- 18. While France Is Armed ... 99 -- 19. II Duce's Opponents 109 -- 20. Daily Horror 117 -- 21. A "Plague" Sweeps across Europe 123 -- 22. Reality in the Camps 131 -- 23. Two Children of Alsace-Lorraine 135 -- 24. Planet Ash 141 -- 25. German Itineraries 145 -- 26. A Regime of Terror 151 -- 27. Rejection of War Labors 155 -- 28. Joseph Hisiger 159 -- 29. Arthur Winkler 163 -- 30. Corporal Punishments 167 -- 31. But What Is Scripture? 171 -- 32. They That Have Power to Hurt 175 -- 33. Hell of Auschwitz 179 -- 34. SS's Kalfaktorinnen and Dienstmädchen 183 -- 35. Incredible Will for Conversion 187 -- 36. Arnold Family 191 -- 37. A Ten-Year-Old in the Camps of Silesia 197 -- 38. Häftling Louis Piechota 203 -- 39. Voyage in the Night 207 -- 40. A Gaullist Resister in Dachau 215 -- 41. January 1945: The Red Army Arrives at Auschwitz 223 -- 42. Truth Will Have the Last Word 227 -- 43. Evacuation of the Camps 231 -- 44. Forgotten Ones 241 -- Declaration Renouncing Beliefs 245