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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 form

2. The international scope of the religion, implying international equality

3. The Witnesses's political neutrality & their refusal to swear allegiance to the state

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How were the lives of Jehovahs Witnesses influenced during the war?

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).


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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.


Were Germans sent to concentration camps and why?

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How many families were sent to the concentration camps during the Holocaust?

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Were Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted by the Nazis?

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Why were they sent to concentration camps?

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