http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/VictJeho.htm
The following is from the above link.
[The Nazis also began to suppress several Christian minorities whom they felt were subversive to their goals. Even before the war, Jehovah's Witnesses had been considered heretics by other Christian denominations and individual German states sought to limit their activities. In the early 1930's, Nazi storm troopers broke up their meetings and beat up individual Witnesses. After the Nazis came to power, the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses intensified.
On July 27, 1933, the Gestapo--the Nazi street police--closed the printing operation of the Watchtower Society, an organization of the Witnesses. The Gestapo ordered all state-police precincts to search regional Witness groups and organizations. The Witnesses, however, defied Nazi prohibitions by continuing to meet and distribute literature smuggled in from Switzerland.
For defying the ban on their activities, many Witnesses were arrested and sent to prisons and concentration camps. They lost their jobs in both private industry and public service and were denied their unemployment, social welfare, and pension benefits.
On April 1, 1935, Jehovah's Witnesses were banned by law. However, they refused to be drafted into the military services or perform war-related work and continued to meet. In 1935, some 400 Witnesses were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. By 1939, an estimated 6,000 Witnesses were detained in prisons and camps. Some were tortured by police to force them to renounce their faith. Few did so.
The children of Witnesses also suffered. They were ridiculed by their teachers because they refused to give the "Heil Hitler" salute or sing patriotic songs. They were beaten up by their classmates and expelled from schools. The authorities took children away from their parents and sent them to reform schools and orphanages, or to private homes to be brought up as Nazis.
In the concentration camps, Jehovah's Witnesses were required to wear a purple triangle to distinguish them from other inmates. Many of them died from disease, hunger, exhaustion, brutal treatment, and exposure to the cold. About 10,000 Witnesses were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Nazi period. An estimated 2,500 to 5,000 died.]
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/USHMMJeh.HTM[Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. Actions against the religious group and its individual members spanned the Nazi years 1933 to 1945. Unlike Jews and Sinti and Roma ("Gypsies"), persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs. The courage the vast majority displayed in refusing to do so, in the face of torture, maltreatment in concentration camps, and sometimes execution, won them the respect of many contemporaries.]
You can find out more at these websites.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20000622/article_01.htm
It was the same because Jehovah's Witnesses aren't Jewish.
If you're talking about Germany... Jehovahs Witnesses refused the nazi-salute and the military service (according to their religious belief). Therefore they were sent to concentration camps (where some of them died).
He was the nazi leader and was one of the people that led the nazis against the jewish people and Jehovahs witnesses in world war 2 believing inthe perfect race,.
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.
There are many accounts of what Jehovah's Witnesses endured in Nazi Germany. Since they refused to conform to Hitlers standards they became the targets of bitter persecution and many thousands were imprisoned and killed. For specific stories click on the links below.
Jehovah's Witnesses refused to conform to Nazi ideology and refused to cooperate with Hitler's political aims and military endevors and and because of this were targeted for the harshest of treatments. Historian Brian Dunn identifies 3 basic reasons why the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses were incompatible with Nazism:1. The Witnesses's opposition to racism in any form2. The international scope of the religion, implying international equality3. The Witnesses's political neutrality & their refusal to swear allegiance to the state
In Nazi occupied territory yes.
The German Government and the German Army could not of given the Nazi party so much power to begin with. Then the Nazi Party wouldn't of risen in power over Germany.
Jews began leaving Nazi Germany soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933 - three years before the 1936 Olympics.
Yes the policy was documented by Hitler in "Mein Kampf" before he came to power.
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. "
Hitler and the Nazi party attained power when President Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor on January 30, 1933.
He did not just pick the Jews. Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and Gypsies are among the Nazi's victims.