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Jehovah's Witnesses
jehovah's witnesses, refuse to go to war , even being imprisoned for their beliefs
According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a pamphlet titled they published entitled "JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES"In the Nazi years, about 10,000 Witnesses were imprisoned in concentration camps, most of them of German nationality. "
The first representatives of the International Bible Students (as Jehovah's Witnesses were know as at the time) were sent to the continent of Africa in 1910 and a concerted effort was made in the 1920's by Jehovah's Witnesses to take their message to the African people. By the end of the second world war Jehovah's Witnesses were active in 14 African countries the number increasing to 19 by 1975. There are presently hundreds of thousands of African Jehovah's Witnesses in African countries most notably Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.
many were sent to concentration camps, they were treated like Jews and Hitler hated them! many died during ww1 and ww2-- they were also disliked in their own country because they did not fight in war, so they were sent to work on farms with the women or other places were made useful!
Jehovah's Witnesses.
With reference to the concentration, destruction and prison camps in operation in Nazi territories during the second world war, Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to all the major camps and detention centers notably Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, Dachau, Mauthausen, Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück and others.
Jews, prisoners of war, gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities, and Jehovah's witnesses
They carried on as before, increasing the number of members and countries that they were active in.
No they did not. We believed that Jesus Christ was throned as king in 1914 and Satan and his demons were cast out of heaven when that happened. To distract people from that glorious time, Satan caused World War I in October of that year.
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses are a christian group best known for their public preaching work.They number approximately 7 million and are the fastest growing Christian denomination in America. They are an international religon with branches in most countries in the world."Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a worldwide Christian religion who actively share with others information about God, whose name is Jehovah, and about his Son, Jesus Christ.They base their beliefs solely on the principles found in the Holy Bible and view first-century Christianity as their model."Answers.com "A member of a religious denomination founded in the United States during the late 19th century in which active evangelism is practiced, the imminent approach of the millennium is preached, and war and organized governmental authority in matters of conscience are strongly opposed."BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation : [quote] Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a Christian-based religious movement.[end quote]Wikipedia "[...] a Christian group who say that they have gone back to what early Christians did. [...] Witnesses are known for preaching their beliefs from door-to-door and in other public places."encyclopedia.com: "Christian group originating in the United States at the end of the 19th cent., organized by Charles Taze Russell , whose doctrine centers on the Second Coming of Christ."
Like the Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses were targeted by the Nazi regime, not because of their ethnicity but because of their strictly neutral stand and there determination not to give support to Hitler's Army. See links below and related pages.