WORLD WAR II
(See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazism)
(Note centered headings below: List by Place; Quotations)
Anglo-American cooperation: w88 5/15 25
beginning: g87 4/8 19
events leading up to: g87 4/8 17-19
benefits for nations that lost: g89 5/8 29
casualties: g 10/12 26; w08 5/15 14; w07 8/15 23; re 94; w00 4/15 3
death ratio in various countries: w88 6/1 28
number killed each month: g86 2/8 3
cigarettes: g86 4/8 6
comments on, from Nobel Peace Prize lecture: g88 4/8 6
discussion: g87 4/8 17-21; g87 4/22 15-19; g87 5/8 16-20
effects: g95 9/8 3-5
food shortage worldwide: g88 4/8 10
national hatreds: g87 5/8 20
on civilians: g89 10/8 5-6
on later history: g87 5/22 12-15
on morality: g 4/07 6
end: jv 95; g87 5/8 16-20
in Europe: yb87 167
experiences:
bicycle fleet passes checkpoint: jv 307
French refugee: w88 7/1 18-19
German sergeant major: g94 4/22 12-15
German soldier: w05 1/1 6
kamikaze pilot: g04 9/8 31; g02 12/8 18-21; yb98 101
marine’s account of battle of Iwo Jima: g89 10/8 7-8
member of German Air Force: w04 10/1 12
spiritual food provided (Ireland): w95 3/1 27
Witnesses in prison: w16.02 4-5
Jehovah not involved: Lmn 10-11
Jehovah’s Witnesses: w04 1/1 14; g00 12/22 17-18; jv 448-461
bans: w19.07 9; jv 457-458
field ministry: w12 2/15 9
growth: re 91-92; w04 1/15 19; jv 95, 461
neutrality: w16.08 32; w09 6/1 14-15; w08 7/1 22; yb00 74-76; jv 194; w90 2/1 22
paper supplies: jv 586; w89 9/1 27
persecution: w10 9/15 3-4; g00 4/22 19; dp 173, 175-178; jv 448-458, 675-676; w89 1/1 26
relief work after: foa article 7; kr 211; g05 11/8 8
life stories:
After Buchenwald I Found the Truth: w92 6/1 27-30
A Lesson From a Pot of Fat: g97 10/22 20-24
Always Finding Something to Do for Jehovah: w89 10/1 22-26
Finding the Right Army: g87 4/22 11-14
From Deadly Mission to Peaceful Pursuit: g04 9/8 31; g03 8/8 30; g02 12/8 18-21
From Hitler’s Army to a Ministry in Spain: g90 9/8 17-21
From Nazi Zealot to Christian Overseer: g86 4/22 13-16
From SS Officer to Servant of the True God: g 2/10 18-20
From War Hero to Soldier of Christ: g98 12/22 12-15
How Living as a Fugitive Affected My Life: g88 6/22 19-22
I Am Grateful to Have Survived: g92 4/8 20-23
I Feared Death—Now I Await ‘Life in Abundance’: w11 7/15 20-23
I Learned to Rely on Jehovah: w98 9/1 24-28
I Saw the Futility of War: g88 4/8 17-21
I Survived the Sinking of the Bismarck: g87 10/8 10-14
“I Was Determined to Die for the Emperor”: g92 5/8 14-19
Keeping My Promise to Serve God: w99 6/1 20-23
Learning Why God Permits Suffering Changed My Life: w06 5/1 8-13
My Reflections as a Military Historian: g93 4/22 9-13
Striving to Be “a Workman With Nothing to Be Ashamed Of”: w99 1/1 21-25
The War Did Not Stop Our Preaching: g01 2/22 20-24
We Learned to Trust Completely in Jehovah: w05 1/1 18-23
plans for postwar peace: g87 4/22 19
religious support: w04 10/1 12; w90 9/15 29; pe 27-28
Catholic Church: g94 10/22 3
United Church of Christ (Japan): g96 1/8 28
significance:
kings of north and south (Da 11:31): dp 265-267; w93 11/1 15
weapons: g88 4/8 6; g87 5/8 18-19
buried mines still explosive: g88 10/8 30
later nuclear arsenals compared: re 94
unexploded munitions: g02 1/8 28; g98 3/8 26-27; g94 2/8 28
women captured for sex: g92 10/8 28
List by Place
Africa: g87 4/22 17-18
Britain: g87 4/8 19-21; g87 4/22 15
astrologer employed by War Office: g86 5/8 7
battle of Britain: w88 3/1 14
battleship Hood: g87 10/8 10
Churchill’s comments: g87 4/22 15
North Africa: g87 4/22 17-18
Canada:
Japanese Canadians unjustly treated: g89 1/8 30
Witness children expelled from school: w15 9/15 29
Czechoslovakia:
Terezín Fortress: g 3/12 18-20
France: g95 3/8 30; g93 4/22 9, 11; g87 4/8 19-21
civilian exodus south: w89 10/1 24
Germany:
battleship Bismarck: g87 10/8 10-12
battleship Graf Spee: w96 4/15 5
blitzkrieg conquest of Western Europe: g87 4/8 19-21
Catholic bishops urge support: re 238; w89 3/1 4; w89 4/15 12
churches use forced labor: g01 4/22 28
defeat: g87 5/8 18-19
Dresden bombing: g87 5/8 17
Enigma encryption machine: g 8/09 26, 28
Hamburg firebombing: g86 5/22 3
invasion of Russia: yb08 86-87; g01 4/22 3-4; g87 4/22 16-17
North Africa: g87 4/22 17-18
number in various religions who refused military service: g87 9/8 7
popular sentiment reverses: g87 5/8 16-17
preparation: g87 4/8 17-19
unmanned jets: w16.08 4-5
V-1 and V-2 missiles: g04 12/22 21; g87 5/8 18
Guadeloupe: yb95 122
Hawaii: yb91 87-89
Ireland: yb88 86-88
Italy: g87 4/8 21; g87 4/22 17-18
Allies invade: g87 5/8 18
Japan: w98 12/1 28
battle of Iwo Jima: g89 10/8 7-8
conquests: g87 4/22 16, 18
defeats: g87 4/22 18-19; g87 5/8 19; g86 5/22 3
Hiroshima: g04 3/8 3; g92 5/8 18
religious support: w90 9/15 29
role of emperor: g89 12/22 8-9
role of emperor worship: g89 12/22 3, 5-8
role of Shinto: re 240; sh 201-203; w89 5/15 4-5
suicide missions: g02 12/8 18-20; g91 1/22 9-12
support by United Church of Christ: g96 1/8 28
Tokyo: g 1/08 14
Malaya: g92 5/8 15-16
Netherlands:
tulips used as food: g00 12/22 16
Norway: g87 4/8 20
Philippines: yb03 155, 158-160
Poland: yb94 201-202
Romania: yb06 94-100
Saipan:
island of Tinian: yb97 232
Singapore: g92 5/8 16-17
Soviet Union: yb08 86-87; g01 4/22 3-4; yb90 165, 174; g87 4/8 19-20; g87 4/22 16-17; g87 5/22 12-13
Switzerland: yb87 156-167
Thailand: g92 5/8 15; yb91 200-205; w88 11/1 13
United States: g87 4/22 15-16
Japanese balloon bombs: g95 12/8 29; g88 2/22 29
Pearl Harbor: g91 12/8 3-11; g87 4/22 16
Yugoslavia: yb09 164-169; w05 1/1 3; g94 11/8 5
religious involvement: w96 7/1 5
Quotations
scene of material ruin and moral havoc the like of which had never darkened the imagination of former centuries: g94 11/8 11
sexual restraint suspended: g 4/07 6