Displaying: 226 250 of 958 matches for “Jehovahs witnesses”
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226. Portrait of German Field Marshall Erich von Manstein at the IMT Nuremberg commission hearings investigating the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, OKW.
Waedenswil, where he lived in the home of a florist, who was probably an adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses ... MILITARY OFFICERS; TRIALS; TRIALS (NUREMBERG 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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227. Pamphlet
as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945. ... Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, Wohlfahrt Sicher, used by Gregor Wohlfahrt and then his son, Franz, to ... preach and recruit members for the Jehovah's Witness in Austria. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in ... Jehovah Witnesses, had been banned in Germany since 1935. The religion was not banned but members were
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228. Non-Jewish Victims
’s Witnesses Jehovah’s Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. About 10,000, most of them ... establishing massive forced-labor programs, and relocating hundreds of thousands. Jehovah’s Witnesses Jehovah ... ’s Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1,000 German Jehovah ... ” believed to threaten the biological purity and strength of the “superior Aryan” race. Jehovah
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229. Berthold Mewes
outlaw Jehovah's Witness activities. 1933-39: When Berthold was 4, his parents became Jehovah ... Although he had no contact with other Jehovah's Witnesses, his faith in Jehovah and the teachings of the ... in 1945 when he was 15, and together the family resumed their lives as Jehovah's Witnesses. Berthold ... western Germany. Paderborn was near Bad Lippspringe, where there was a Jehovah
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230. The Paint Roller
Franz Wohlfahrt was a son, a brother, a fiancé, a house painter, and a Jehovah’s Witness ... . The Nazis persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses because they refused to serve in the military or swear an ... Franz Wohlfahrt and his family for being Jehovah’s Witnesses. A tool of his trade as a painter played a
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231. Johann Stossier
which also happened to have a Jehovah's Witness congregation. He became a Jehovah's Witness during the ... do missionary work for the Jehovah's Witnesses even after this was banned by the Austrian government ... in 1936. The situation for Jehovah's Witnesses worsened after Germany ... Sachsenhausen, the Germans tried to force Johann to repudiate his faith as a Jehovah's Witness, but Johann
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232. German Military Oaths
's Witnesses, in a particularly difficult position. Jehovah's Witnesses do ... ruler. By 1939 thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses had been arrested, tried by judicial authorities and ... represented a high crime against not only Germany, but also the Führer himself. This placed one group, Jehovah ... least 250 Witnesses were tried by military tribunals and executed for their actions. The
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233. Robert Buckley papers
Robert Buckley (1938- ) converted his religion to become a Jehovah's Witness in 1959. After which ... Buckley served in a number of capacities for the Jehovah's Witnesses, including public relations and news ... 's Witness faith. The Robert Buckley oral history collection contains 123 interviews with Jehovah's Witness ... Holocaust, including some on the role Jehovah's Witnesses played during that time.The second folder contains
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234. 1935: Key Dates
. April 1The German government bans Jehovah's Witness ... organizations. The ban is due to Jehovah's Witnesses refusal to swear allegiance to the state; their religious
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235. Ruth Warter
1923, when Uzliekniai became part of Lithuania, she joined the Jehovah's Witnesses. She married Eduard ... Warter, another Jehovah's Witness, in 1928. They had four children over the next five years. 1933 ... Jehovah's Witnesses, deported them to Siberia in 1950. In 1969 they returned to Germany. ... to win him away from Jehovah. An officer asked Ruth to persuade Eduard to join the army, but she
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236. Magdalena Kusserow
One of 11 children, Magdalena was raised as a Jehovah's Witness ... headquarters of the local Jehovah's Witness congregation. By age 8 Magdalena could recite many Bible verses by ... were also in Ravensbrueck; with God's help, the Jehovah's Witnesses stuck together. During a ... heart. 1933-39: The Kusserow's loyalty was to Jehovah, so the Nazis
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237. 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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238. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps
Jehovah's Witnesses refused to serve in the German army or take an oath of obedience to ... triangles. Gay men and men accused of homosexuality were identified with pink triangles. And Jehovah ... 's Witnesses were identified with purple ones. Non-German prisoners were identified by the first letter of the
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239. Helene Gotthold
World War I, Helene, who was a nurse, and her husband became Jehovah's Witnesses in 1926. Together, they ... Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted for their missionary work and because they believed their sole ... family survived and resumed their Jehovah's Witness missionary work in Germany. ... 's Court sentenced Helene and five other Witnesses to death for illegally holding Bible meetings and
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240. 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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241. Resources on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust
State Hermann Ludwig Maas Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany: From the 1890s to the 1930s Nazi ... Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Role of German Clergy and Church Leaders Martin Niemoeller
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242. Who were the Victims?
Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay men and men accused of homosexuality, 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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243. 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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244. 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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245. 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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246. 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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247. 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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248. 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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249. Verstorben
One Jehovahs' Witness appears on this list. ... Jehovah's Witness
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250. 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