Footnote

b The magazine Trost (Consolation), published by the Watch Tower Society in Bern, Switzerland, on May 1, 1940, page 10, reported that on one occasion the female Jehovah’s Witnesses in Lichtenburg received no midday meal for 14 days because they refused to make a gesture of honor when Nazi hymns were played. There were 300 Witnesses of Jehovah there.