Germany, Federal Republic of (West) — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Berlin, West: yb74 24-25; g71 5/22 21-24; g65 12/8 3-6; g64 2/8 29; g64 4/8 30; g61 8/8 29; g59 5/22 12-15; g56 9/8 27-28; g54 3/8 13-15; g49 9/22 13-16; g48 11/8 9-12

bicycles: g78 11/22 30-31

CARE packages sent to Detroit, Michigan, during recession: g83 6/8 29

carnival: g73 3/8 5-7; w68 213

Catholic Church: g84 2/22 29; g60 10/8 13-16; g50 4/22 3-7; w47 244; g47 8/22 5-8; g46 1/30 14-15

cavemen:

new discoveries regarding: g81 1/22 29-30

childbirth: g79 4/8 9-12

children:

child abuse: g84 9/8 29

child “rights”: g79 12/8 29

crisis in child training a basic cause of terrorism in (quote): w78 1/15 11

spanking banned: g80 4/8 29

clearing of antitank barriers along French border: g79 2/22 30-31

conditions after World War II: yb74 217-219, 234; w69 443-444; g65 5/8 25; g59 11/8 16-19; g50 4/22 17-20; g47 8/22 3-4; g47 11/22 12-15; w46 61

Condor airline: g77 7/22 30

construction work: g65 5/8 25-27; g61 2/8 31

Corpus Christi celebration: g55 4/22 13-15

courts:

validity of 1933 concordat between Germany and the Vatican: g80 5/22 18

crime: g79 10/22 3-6; g63 4/8 5-6

customs: g73 1/8 26

dead man undiscovered for seven years: g82 10/8 30

deaths from—

smoking: g80 9/22 30

traffic accidents: g80 9/22 30; g79 10/8 30

dentists’ use of gold: g81 8/22 29

description: g68 3/22 26; g62 6/8 8-10; g55 6/22 17-19

discovery of remains of American war dead: g80 2/8 30

divine name: na 7, 10-11, 13, 15-16, 18-19, 22

drugs:

heroin: g80 4/8 30

medicine chests abandoned by terrorists: g80 10/8 30

Duisburg harbor: g77 4/8 14-15

economy: yb74 234; g73 8/22 30; w72 615-616; g71 7/8 29; g69 8/8 30

bankruptcies: g77 4/8 10; g76 3/22 29; g74 11/8 30

cost of living: g62 7/22 31

employment: g73 3/22 20-21; g64 5/22 17-18; yb63 144-145; g61 5/22 30

inflation: w75 567

labor cost per hour: g80 11/22 30

postwar debt: g68 3/8 30; g61 6/8 29

taxes: g77 3/22 29

emigration to the United States over the years: g84 1/8 30

Evolution (biology textbook): g80 9/8 29

families:

disputes over TV and stereo: g78 2/8 30

divorce rate: g76 4/22 29

fireman turns in false alarms to escape nagging wife: g80 12/8 29

need for communication: w78 9/1 13

find of small arms munition from World War II: g83 2/22 30

floods: g62 4/8 29; g62 5/22 21-24

food: g72 1/8 29-30

costs: g80 1/22 30

law allowing use of blood in some foods: w78 6/15 31

surplus: g62 8/8 10

gasoline stations: g77 2/8 30

German Baptists admit failure to resist Nazism: g85 2/8 29

German Federal Parliament:

hearings on protecting youths from smoking: g85 12/22 30

government: g65 7/8 30; g64 1/22 30

political prisoners released: g64 11/22 29

guns: g79 10/22 10

Hamburg: g62 5/22 21-23; g61 5/22 13-14

highways: g72 6/8 3-4

Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb86 23-24; yb85 41; yb75 16; yb74 65-253; km 10/74 1; w73 442; yb73 13-14; g73 3/22 22; g73 9/22 16; yb72 44; g72 6/8 29; w71 16-17; w71 732; yb71 20, 141-142; g71 1/8 13-15; g71 3/22 4; yb70 156-159; g70 4/22 27; g70 7/22 23; w69 4, 94, 382; yb69 137-139; yb68 138-139; g68 8/22 9-11; w67 472-475; yb67 153-154; yb66 136-138; yb65 121-123; yb64 15, 157-159; w63 183; mg63 69, 187; w62 637; yb62 146-148; w61 248-249, 411; g61 5/22 13-14

Abt, Elsa (life story): w80 4/15 12-15

Abt, Harald (life story): w80 4/15 6-12

branch office: w81 9/1 9; w79 5/1 28; w60 30; jp 43, 129-131; yw 268; w55 107, 461-462; qm55 308, 324; na46 41-42

clothing received after the war: jp 220; w49 12; w46 30

commendation by a newspaper: w83 7/15 10

commendation for giving clear answers to questions: g80 4/8 30

commendation for record during Nazi rule: g76 10/22 29

conventions: w79 1/1 13; w78 12/1 9; g78 11/22 22-23; go 140-141; g76 10/22 16; yb74 236-239, 248-252; g72 10/22 18; yb71 143; yb70 60-62; g70 10/22 16-19; w69 603-605; g69 7/22 20; g69 9/22 11; yb66 46; w65 636, 639; yb65 44; yb64 49-50, 152; w63 634; mg63 2, 66-72, 187; g63 6/8 6; g63 9/8 29; g63 10/22 24; w62 318; yb62 52-53, 55, 146-147; w61 249, 602-603; yb61 145; g61 1/22 12-15; g61 5/22 13-14; w59 122; jp 237-238, 261-262; w56 152-159; w52 25-29, 56-59; w49 379-382; w47 317

corporation that represents: yb81 257

experience of an air force pilot: w76 248-251

foreign-language congregations: yb74 241-242

Forster, Dietrich: w82 10/15 31

Franke, Konrad: w83 11/1 31; w63 183

Gilead Extension School: w82 10/15 31; w81 12/15 28-29

Harms, Elise (life story): w81 10/15 26-30

Hillmann, Wilhelm: g81 7/22 5-9, 11-12

Kaemner, Lothar: w82 10/15 31

kindness of German Witness impresses American soldier: g76 8/22 29

learning foreign languages: g78 6/8 25-26

meeting attendance: g79 10/22 30

military service: g78 1/22 10

missionaries: w79 11/1 13

new branch facilities in Selters: w85 1/1 27; w84 9/15 22-26; w81 10/1 16-17

Parliament discusses persecution in Malawi: w76 396; g76 8/8 8

persecution: w75 85; yb74 210-212, 238; w72 395-399; yb71 20-21; g71 1/8 13-14; g69 9/8 12; mg63 66, 187; g63 9/8 29

Peter, Egon: w82 10/15 31

pioneering at age 92: w78 8/15 23

Poetzinger, Gertrud: w84 8/1 25-31

Poetzinger, Martin: w69 732

reconstruction of witness work: yb74 212-215

Reuter, Magdalena Kusserow (life story): w85 9/1 10-15

Rudtke, Werner: w82 10/15 31

service experiences: yb86 23-24; w74 38; w72 511, 541; yb66 137-138; w63 350; yb63 144-146; w62 157; w61 411; yb61 145-147; g56 9/8 27-28; g55 11/22 27-28; w54 413; w52 419-420

special meeting regarding computer operation: yb79 9

terrorist learns truth: g81 12/22 5-8

truth prevents suicide: w80 5/1 32

truth transforms lives: g82 8/8 9-11

Unterdörfer, Ilse (life story): w79 11/1 8-14

witness work after World War II: jp 216, 221, 238, 261-262, 274; g48 4/22 5-8; w46 30; na46 59

youths: w78 9/1 8-12

Küng, Hans:

letter to the pope about celibacy: w80 8/1 23

removed as teacher of Catholic theology: g80 5/22 17-19

view on papal infallibility: w80 5/1 27

lesbian “marriage” annulled: g84 11/22 30

Lilliput Town:

for dwarfs: g78 5/22 30

loan of worms to: g84 6/22 30

Luther, Martin:

celebration of the 500th anniversary of his birth: g84 9/8 13-16

Lutheran State Church:

deplores lack of clear Bible answers to questions: g80 4/8 30

“missionary year”: w79 5/1 30

Mardi Gras: g61 8/22 8; g53 10/8 14

materialism: yb63 144

medicine: g68 6/8 8, 18

“artificial blood”: w79 11/15 29

bloodless blood test: g79 5/22 31

consumption of medical compounds from blood: g84 10/22 29

doctors’ recommendation for reduced stress: g78 9/22 30

genetic defects of babies: g76 5/22 30; g76 12/8 6-7

hard-foam casings for broken legs: g78 7/22 30

thalidomide babies: g76 12/8 6-7

treatment of kidney stones by ultrasonics: g78 10/22 29

mental illness: g81 1/8 6

military service: g71 1/8 13-15; g69 3/8 29

mining: g62 3/22 29; g62 5/8 13-15

money: g61 5/22 14

moral breakdown: g73 4/22 6; g71 12/22 30; g69 10/8 31; g66 2/8 31; g66 4/22 30

adultery: g79 1/22 30

employee dishonesty: g79 10/22 3

Munich: mg63 70-71

beer hall: g79 5/8 29

subway fare: g81 1/8 31

mushrooms of great size: g81 2/8 31

music:

avant-garde music: g75 4/8 31

disco: g80 9/22 29-30

NATO war games: g78 12/8 29

Nazism:

guilt feelings of some leaders: g79 1/8 14-15

legal proceedings: g85 6/8 3

neo-Nazism: g85 6/8 3-4, 6-7

personality tests given leaders at Nürnberg: w76 626

newspaper comment on world’s becoming ungovernable: w81 1/1 23

Nord-Ostsee Kanal: g79 2/22 18-19; g77 2/8 10-12

Nürnberg: g69 7/22 19-20

Oberammergau “Passion Play”: g80 7/8 30; w77 687

Ohlsdorf cemetery: g79 8/8 3-4

plastic water piping: g78 7/22 30

pollution: g71 7/8 29

“miraculous water” of Ransbach: g83 8/22 29-30

Rhine River: g76 11/22 20-22

use of electric fish as pollution detectors: g83 11/8 30

use of Nile pike to determine if city water is polluted: g79 7/8 30

population: yb86 36; g61 12/8 17

birthrate: g79 7/22 30

growth: g76 12/8 29

guest workers: yb74 65, 241; g73 3/22 20-22

non-German-speaking residents: g78 6/8 25-26

postal system: g66 4/8 9-10

mail delivery: g61 2/8 30

survey regarding its workers: g77 7/22 30-31

prisons:

vacation for convicts: g79 9/8 30

problems of nuclear energy: g78 2/8 9-12

purchase of Gutenberg Bible: g78 5/22 29

railroad: g71 7/22 30

rating of its products: g75 10/22 30

reforestation: g76 3/22 24-25

religion: g76 10/22 30; w75 364; w75 400; g75 5/8 29; g74 3/8 30; g72 8/8 30; w71 407; g71 3/22 3-4; g70 5/22 30; g70 6/8 30; g70 6/22 29; g69 3/22 9-11; g69 7/8 3-4; g68 4/22 6-7; g68 5/22 30; g68 6/8 30-31; g68 9/8 30; g66 8/22 5; g65 5/8 27; w64 296; g64 4/22 5; g63 5/22 13; g62 6/8 29; g60 2/8 17-19; g60 8/8 12-15; g55 11/22 27-28

belief in life after death: g76 5/8 30

Bible’s impact on German literature: w77 292

church attendance: g82 9/8 29; g79 10/22 30

clerical salaries: g76 4/8 30

Cologne Cathedral looted: g75 12/22 30

criticism of Billy Graham: g83 3/22 30

cults: g79 1/22 30

decline of churches: w76 360

decrease in church members: g85 3/22 31; g80 8/8 30

government support of: g78 7/8 30

ignorance among churchgoers: w83 9/1 27

Lutheran catechism admits immortal soul doctrine founded on Platonic philosophy: w77 144

Lutheran Church unfrocked minister for heresy: g79 6/22 30

money institutions owned by churches: g80 3/8 30

number terminating church membership: g80 12/8 3

Palatinate Lutheran Church: g84 2/22 29

pope’s visit to Germany and its effect: g81 9/8 30

protest song against religious leaders: w80 4/1 7

survey of Germans under 35 who believe in God: g80 2/22 18

view that “faith needs doubt”: w79 11/15 29

youth’s attitude toward: g76 9/22 5-7

“Rent-a-Sheep” business: g76 7/8 30

Rhine River:

pollution: g76 11/22 20-22

salmon caught: g78 11/8 30

Ruhr Valley (Ruhrgebiet): g61 12/8 16-18

schools: g85 9/22 6-7

ships: g72 5/22 18-19

sailing ship (bulk-cargo freighter): g76 1/22 30

smallest diesel engine: g77 8/8 30

soldier:

first-person account: g73 8/8 19-22

sorcery: g80 12/8 6

spiritism: g83 1/22 30

study of navigation of homing pigeons: g83 12/8 31

suicides: g80 4/22 5

West Berlin: g77 2/8 30

youths: w79 3/15 23

surveys regarding—

belief in God: w80 10/15 22-23

Bible reading by Protestants: g82 7/22 30

communication in marriage: g84 2/22 30

father’s influence on his child’s religiousness: w81 7/15 10

loss of faith among religious instructors: g82 12/8 31

whether war is likely in next three years: w81 1/15 10

why motorists ignore warnings of traffic congestion: g84 2/22 31

youths still living at home with parents: g80 12/8 30-31

telephone services: g55 3/8 12

television: g78 5/8 30

anti-TV club: g80 2/22 29

Chancellor Schmidt’s views: g78 8/8 29

Holocaust: w79 6/1 20

two-channel-at-once set: g77 7/22 31

toy manufacturing: g67 12/8 21

travel by Germans: g79 2/8 31

trial of war criminals: g71 3/8 30; g70 3/8 5; g69 5/22 10; g69 7/22 20; g68 1/8 18-19; g68 6/8 6-7, 18; g68 10/22 5-6; w67 722; g67 8/8 4-5; g66 5/22 9, 11-12; g64 2/8 30

Trier: g80 4/22 21-23

twins:

one black, one white: g78 11/22 30

unemployment compensation for prostitutes: g77 1/8 30-31

visits by—

Covington, H. C.: w47 315-317, 319-320

Henschel, M. G.: w52 25-29, 56-59; w47 315-317

Knorr, N. H.: w57 268-269; w52 25-29, 56-59; w47 315-317

women:

employment: g79 1/22 19

weight gain: g77 7/22 30

work addiction: g78 2/8 29

working hours per year: g79 8/22 30

youths: g68 5/22 9; g63 7/22 9, 15; g60 2/22 9-11; g60 10/22 29; g43 2/17 19

belief in God among young people: g81 9/8 16-19

committee’s findings on youths who riot: g85 10/8 29-30

effect of prison life on juvenile delinquents: g83 11/22 30-31

hearings on protecting youths from smoking: g85 12/22 30

threatened by alcoholism: g77 5/8 31; g77 12/22 8

zoo animals need rest: g76 5/22 30