Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (1994) 145-171
Keywords:
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The ca. 25,000-30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany were considered by the Nazis "dangerous enemies of the state" and were prosecuted, interned, or executed with the approbation of both the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Already in the 1920s, the sect was denounced by nationalists and by both Churches for its emphasis on the Jewish roots of Christianity and its proclamation of the imminent establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. The sect's opponents contended that it was financed by American Jews and that its real aim was Jewish-Bolshevik domination of the world. After 1933 this propaganda intensified, especially since the Witnesses steadfastly refused to compromise with the Nazis.
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