Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933 – 45*
@article{Wrobel2006JehovahsWI, title={Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933 – 45*}, author={Johannes S. Wrobel}, journal={Religion, State \& Society}, year={2006}, volume={34}, pages={125 - 89} }
With thousands incarcerated in the prisons and concentration camps of the ‘Third Reich’, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Ernste Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Students), were among the main and earliest victim groups of the terror apparatus of the National Socialists between 1933 and 1945. The Watchtower History Archive of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Selters/Taunus, Germany (WTA, Zentralkartei), has thus far registered a total of over 4200 names of male (2900) and female (1300) believers of different…
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