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  • 101. Karl-Heinz Kusserow

    his Lutheran parents became Jehovah's Witnesses and gave their children ... Lippspringe. Their home became the headquarters of a new Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39 ... Because of the Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary work, and because their sole allegiance was to God and His ... more than once. The family continued to offer refuge to fellow Witnesses, and also continued to host

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  • 102. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps

    Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps

    Jehovah's Witnesses refused to serve in the German army or take an oath of obedience to ... triangles. Homosexuals were identified with pink triangles and Jehovah's Witnesses with purple ones. Non

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  • 103. Interrogation of General Franz Halder by defense counsel Dr.

    Interrogation of General Franz Halder by defense counsel Dr.

    Waedenswil, where he lived in the home of a florist, who was probably an adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses ... IMT); WITNESSES ... witnesses. He was to report to the tribunal the results of his examinations. The judges also gave ... permission to defense counsel to visit the camps to select witnesses to testify about the accused

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  • 104. Stand Fast

    steht," reworked in English as "Forward, You Witnesses," is among the most popular of Jehovah's Witness ... Erich Frost (1900–87), a musician and devout Jehovah ... 's Witness, was active in the religious resistance to Hitler's authority. Caught smuggling pamphlets from

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  • 105. Gregor Wohlfahrt

    Jehovah's Witnesses during the late 1920s. Gregor supported his wife and six children by working as a ... farmer and quarryman. 1933-39: The Austrian government banned Jehovah's Witness missionary work in ... members of Gregor's Jehovah's Witness congregation were persecuted by the

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  • 106. Who were the Victims?

    Who were the Victims?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses, men accused of engaging in homosexual acts, and ... political prisoners died or were killed. Jehovah’s Witnesses were a religious ... Approximately 1,900 Jehovah’s Witnesses died in the camps. Most of the victims were men of German nationality

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  • 107. Adolphe Arnold

    was a Jehovah's Witness and imprisoned in Mulhouse for two months. In ... 's sister-in-law was able to smuggle to him some Jehovah's Witness literature hidden inside cookies. In ... Disillusioned with the Catholic church, Adolphe and his wife decided to become Jehovah ... 's Witnesses. Under the French, they were free to practice their new faith. 1940-44: The Germans

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  • 108. Willibald Wohlfahrt

    the leader of the local Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39: Willibald lived in a beautiful ... area near lakes and mountains. The Wohlfahrts were active in Jehovah's Witness missionary work, even ... Austria known as Carinthia. Disillusioned with Catholicism, his father and mother became Jehovah ... 's Witnesses when Willibald was an infant, and they raised their children in their new faith. His father became

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  • 109. Wolfgang Kusserow

    Their home became the headquarters of a new Jehovah's Witness congregation. Wolfgang and his ten ... scrutiny by the Nazi secret police because of their religion. As a Jehovah's Witness, Wolfgang believed ... When Wolfgang was an infant, his parents became Jehovah ... 's Witnesses. His father moved the family to the small Westphalian town of Bad Lippspringe when Wolfgang was 9

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  • 110. Johannes M. Lublink

    Jehovah's Witnesses. 1933-39: Hitler's coming to power in Germany was a threat to all of them. In ... 1936 Johannes became a Jehovah's Witness. His mother was also a Witness ... and by 1938, one brother and one sister became Witnesses as well. Even in the Netherlands his family ... detained for several months, he was deported with 50 other Witnesses to the

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  • 111. Verstorben

    One Jehovahs' Witness appears on this list. ... Jehovah's Witness

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  • 112. The Kusserow family

    Bible study classes in their home. They were Jehovah's Witnesses. Their house was conveniently situated ... for fellow Jehovah's Witnesses along the tram route connecting the cities of Paderborn and Detmold

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  • 113. Prisoners of the Camps

    wore black triangles. Jehovah's Witnesses wore purple and homosexuals pink. Letters indicated ... Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals were sent to concentration camps as punishment. Members of these

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  • 114. Josef Schoen

    Jehovah's Witness in Prague, and refused to have anything more to do with the military, following the ... Vienna for the Jehovah's Witness underground. His job was dangerous ... Witnesses' strict adherence to the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." In 1938 he was briefly arrested for ... Witnesses office's printing machines and set them up again in Holland. 1940-44: Josef worked in

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  • 115. Wilhelm Kusserow

    Jehovah's Witnesses and raised their children according to their faith. After 1931, their home in the ... rustic town of Bad Lippspringe became known as a center of Jehovah's Witness activity. 1933-39 ... The Kusserows were under close scrutiny by the Nazi police because Witnesses believed that their ... religious literature was confiscated. They offered refuge to fellow Witnesses and continued to host Bible

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  • 116. Gregor Wohlfahrt

    parents became Jehovah's Witnesses and raised their children according to that religion. As a boy, Gregor ... situation for Jehovah's Witnesses worsened after Germany ... annexed Austria in March 1938; Witnesses refused to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler, believing that ... Franz, Gregor refused to be inducted into the German armed forces, following the Witnesses' belief that

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  • 117. Hilda Kusserow

    became a Jehovah's Witness. After 1931 the Kusserow home in the small town ... of Bad Lippspringe was the headquarters of a Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39: The ... Jehovah. Hilda continued doing missionary work even though it was banned. In 1936 she was arrested and

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  • 118. Emma Arnold

    Emma and her family decided to become Jehovah's Witnesses. Emma felt she ... family were no longer free to be Jehovah's Witnesses. The Gestapo arrested ... daughter about Jehovah and the importance of obeying His commandments. Life in Mulhouse was peaceful and

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  • 119. Johanna Niedermeier Buchner

    Jehovah's Witness. 1933-39: Johanna traveled constantly in and out of Austria distributing our ... Jehovah's Witness literature. In March 1938 Germany annexed Austria and her ... Jehovah and he gave her the strength to withstand the hardships of the war. Johanna was liberated

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  • 120. Simone Arnold

    printing factory. Her parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and instilled in her the teachings of the faith ... Jehovah's Witness teachings. In June 1943 she was sent to a children's reeducation center in Constance ... Mulhouse. Simone's love for Jehovah sustained her. Simone was liberated by the French army in April

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  • 121. Walther Hamann

    Lutheran, Walther became a Jehovah's Witness in 1923. After becoming a master ... a banned organization, the Jehovah's Witnesses. The Special Court in Duesseldorf gave him a 27-month ... -in-law Dietrich, who had been there four years, died at his side. With Jehovah's help Walther endured

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  • 122. Neuzugänge des K.L. Buchenwald (B.B.V.) vom 7.9.44.

    The list includes on Jehovahs' Witness (p. 7). Unclear what "BBV" means. ... Jehovah's Witness

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  • 123. Neuzugänge vom 30.8.44 (Baubrigade V). des K.L. Buchenwald

    Two Jehovahs' Witnesses appear on the list (p. 7). ... Jehovah's Witness

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  • 124. Robert Wagemann describes fleeing from a clinic where, his mother feared, he was to be put to death by euthanasia

    Robert and his family were Jehovah's Witnesses. The Nazis regarded ... Jehovah's Witnesses as enemies of the state for their refusal to take an

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  • 125. Ravensbrück

    Ravensbrück

    this category were many Roma (Gypsies) Jews Jehovah's Witnesses "criminals ... Jehovah's Witnesses. Camp authorities initiated a second round of killings at such “euthanasia

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