The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis

by Reynaud, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780815410768
• ISBN10: 081541076X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Cooper Square Pub

Summary

The Johovah's Witnesses, members of a religious sect founded in 1872, see themselves as citizens of Jehovah's Kingdom, and thus decline to swear allegiance to any worldly governments.

Author Biography

Michel Reynaud, a writer and scholar in the field of World War II deportations, is founder of the French publishing company Editions Tiresias Sylvie Graffard, a writer and scholar, has been working in the study of deportation since 1960 Michael Berenbaum is an eminent Holocaust historian and retired president of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Michael Berenbaum
From a Letter	xiii
Thomas Mann
From a Letter	xv
Germaine Tillion
Notes to Readers	xvii
Symbols of Persecution	xix
Chronology	xxi
The Nazi Takeover	1	(10)
The Enemy Identified	11	(6)
If We Are Ready to Answer ``Yes''	17	(4)
Do Not Submit to the Powers of Man	21	(4)
The Assembly at Basel	25	(4)
Survival	29	(4)
The ``Negroes'' in Europe	33	(8)
Der Anstreicher	41	(4)
You Are Accused of Ten Thousand Crimes: You Know Nothing	45	(4)
``Alle Jugend dem Fuhrer''	49	(6)
A Lynching of Consciences	55	(4)
Families Destroyed	59	(4)
The Church and the State	63	(6)
1937, the Year of ``Ordinary'' Oppression	69	(10)
The Concentration Camps	79	(6)
The Invasion of Austria and the Plebiscite	85	(6)
Austrians in the Spiral of Oppression	91	(8)
While France Is Armed	99	(10)
II Duce's Opponents	109	(8)
The Daily Horror	117	(6)
A ``Plague'' Sweeps across Europe	123	(8)
Reality in the Camps	131	(4)
Two Children of Alsace-Lorraine	135	(6)
Planet Ash	141	(4)
German Itineraries	145	(6)
A Regime of Terror	151	(4)
Rejection of War Labors	155	(4)
Joseph Hisiger	159	(4)
Arthur Winkler	163	(4)
Corporal Punishments	167	(4)
But What Is Scripture?	171	(4)
They That Have Power to Hurt	175	(4)
The Hell of Auschwitz	179	(4)
The SS's Kalfaktorinnen and Dienstmadchen	183	(4)
The Incredible Will for Conversion	187	(4)
The Arnold Family	191	(6)
A Ten-Year-Old in the Camps of Silesia	197	(6)
Haftling Louis Piechota	203	(4)
Voyage in the Night	207	(8)
A Gaullist Resister in Dachau	215	(8)
January 1945: The Red Army Arrives at Auschwitz	223	(4)
The Truth Will Have the Last Word	227	(4)
Evacuation of the Camps	231	(10)
Forgotten Ones	241	(4)
The Declaration Renouncing Beliefs	245	(2)
Glossary	247	(8)
Bibliography	255	(16)
Index	271