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Between 1940 and 1942 there were hundreds of violent attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States, with estimates of the exact number as high as 2,500. These attacks nearly always took place in public spaces, and frequently with the acquiescence of local law enforcement officials.
Jul 17, 2018 · -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum remains deeply concerned over the continuing harassment and persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses by Russian authorities. Since the Russian Supreme Court labeled Jehovah’s Witnesses an “extremist organization” in April 2017 , Witness property has been seized by the state, numerous Witnesses ...
Jul 18, 2021 · The people present were Jehovah's Witnesses -- a Christian religious sect first founded in the United States in the 19th century but now has an estimated 8 million followers around the world.
Here they were forced to wear a purple triangle to identify as a Jehovah’s Witness. By 1939 over 6,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses were in concentration camps across the Third Reich. At the end of the war over 1,400 had been murdered in the camps. 250 people were also executed for refusing to fight.
Jehovah's Witnesses suffered religious persecution in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 after refusing to perform military service, join Nazi organizations, or give allegiance to the Hitler regime. An estimated 10,000 Witnesses were sent to Nazi concentration camps. It is estimated that between 2,000 and 5,000 died in custody, including 250 ...
Between 1940 and 1942 there were hundreds of violent attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States, with estimates of the exact number as high as 2,500. These attacks nearly always took place in public spaces, and frequently with the acquiescence of local law enforcement officials.
In this chapter I trace the historical trajectory of Jehovah's Witnesses and the origins of the conflict that led to the spectacular persecution of the 1940s. While the flag salute conflict came to define the experience of Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1940s, it was not the only point of tension between them and broader society.
