U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust Museum - Jehovah's Witnesses pages
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Jehovah's Witnesses
A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center - Jehovah's Witnesses
Aug 5, 2009 - Center for Holocaust Studies
University of Minnesota
27 works of art by Johannes Steyer, Jehovah's Witness and former prisoner of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Wilmette: Yes Mahmoud There was a Holocaust
By Publia
The picture above [on the site] is from a series painted from memory by Johannes Steyer, a Jehovah's Witness incarcerated at Buchenwald as #1795. The text is translated as "Jehovah's Witnesses (Bible Students) before them, a group of Jews struggling ...
Book: Between Resistance and Martyrdom:
Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich
by Leon Stein
from Project Muse: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Abstract:
This book is a translation of the fourth edition of the study that first appeared in Germany in 1993. It is the most comprehensive and detailed book on the persecution and incarceration of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany since the first works on the subject appeared in the 1970s.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses, also known as the International Bible Students Association and the Watch Tower Society, was founded in 1870 in the United States as a Christian adventist, millenialist, and revivalist organization. The Witnesses professed their loyalty only to Jehovah, and believed that they would prevail after the Battle of Armageddon as a victorious elect in a thousand-year period of heavenly peace. They refused to serve in the army of any nation and to give their allegiance to any government. A non-conformist group, they were disliked for their opposition to the First World War, their disdain toward all governments, and their early support of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the Jehovah’s Witnesses increased their numbers in Germany, probably because of the disillusionment with the war, the search for spiritual meaning, and the vigorous door-to-door proselytizing and pamphleteering of the organization. The actions and attitudes of the Witnesses, however, provoked hostility among conservative nationalists for the Witnesses’ antimilitarism, and opposition from the established churches—especially the Catholic—whom the Witnesses accused of conspiring to rule the world. Nazi antisemites such as Alfred Rosenberg accused the Witnesses of being a tool of the “international Jewish conspiracy".