NAZISM
(See also Concentration Camps; Germany [Nazi]; Hitler; Persecution)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
activities outside Germany: g85 6/8 3, 6-7; g65 3/22 30; g44 2/2 26-28; g44 4/26 3-7; g40 6/12 25-28; g40 7/10 5; g40 7/24 19-25; g39 1/11 13; g39 8/23 27; g38 11/30 7-10; g38 12/14 3-6
Netherlands: yb86 122, 138-139, 145-149, 154-155, 163, 166-167
anti-Semitism: g85 6/8 10; g69 7/22 19; g64 3/22 3-4; g64 5/8 11-12; g64 7/8 3; g62 5/22 26; g56 12/22 17-20; g49 7/22 3-6; g46 1/30 27; g45 2/28 10-11; g45 8/15 26-28; g44 1/19 19; g44 5/24 6-7; g43 3/17 19-21; g43 5/26 12; g43 6/23 15; g43 12/22 20-21; g41 5/14 11-12; g40 6/12 24-25; g39 1/25 21-22; g39 6/28 25; g39 7/26 3-6; g38 2/9 14; g38 5/4 7-8; g38 12/14 7-9; g37 3/10 360-361; g36 4/8 428-430; g35 10/9 6; g33 1/4 209-210
attitude of Mormon Church toward: w84 5/15 25
attitude toward Slavic peoples: g85 6/8 10
Baptist Church admits failure to resist: g85 2/8 29
Catholic Church: g84 2/22 29; g84 5/8 29; g75 2/22 17-23; g72 4/22 16-17; g72 8/8 30; g71 12/8 3-4; g70 8/22 29; w69 529; g66 12/8 10-11; g65 1/8 30; g64 3/22 3-4; g64 5/8 9-21; g60 10/8 14-16; jp 94-95; g51 1/8 9-10; g46 11/22 5-6, 19; ta 323-324; g45 5/9 10-13; g45 9/26 3-14; g44 2/16 4-12; g43 1/6 21-26; g43 2/3 21-28; g43 2/17 5-11; w41 344; g41 1/8 6-8; g41 9/17 4-10; g40 6/12 19; g40 7/10 3-5; g40 7/24 20-25; g40 9/4 19; g40 9/18 5; g38 3/23 17; g38 5/4 4-7; g38 7/27 22-24; g38 11/30 3; cg36 29-30; g36 4/8 421-422; g36 5/6 504; g35 10/9 3; g35 11/20 108-110
Cardinal Stepinac: g79 12/8 29-30
concordat: w75 398; g64 5/8 18-21
New York Times news item: g85 12/22 5
support of Nazism: g85 6/8 8; g85 10/22 29; g85 12/22 5; g83 5/8 30; w80 1/1 5; g78 12/22 10; g75 2/22 19
support of war criminal de Bernonville: g83 6/22 31
suppression of book on role in World War II: w75 715
Vatican aids escape of Nazis: g84 5/8 29; g77 2/22 29; w75 48
Vatican view of atrocities: g75 2/22 17-19
clergy responsibility: g85 6/8 8-10; g85 12/22 5; kc 157; g81 10/8 29; w79 6/1 20; w78 4/1 7; g78 12/22 10; g77 2/22 29; g75 7/8 30
concentration camps:
book Crystal Night: g84 10/8 29
conditions: g84 12/8 12-13
conscience of leaders operative but ignored: g79 1/8 14-15
definition: g85 4/8 4
discussion: g85 6/8 3-12
euthanasia program: w75 294
founder: g85 6/8 4
Himmler: yb74 174, 195-197, 202, 205, 211
challenged Jehovah: w79 11/1 8, 11
Hitler: w75 241; ka 7-9; g73 1/22 5-6; g69 6/22 6; g64 5/8 10-21; w61 245; g41 9/17 5-7; g40 6/12 23; g40 6/26 18; g40 7/10 3-5; g40 7/24 20; g39 6/14 3-11; g39 6/28 20; g39 8/9 18; g38 5/4 3-4; g38 11/30 4-5; g37 12/15 29; g35 1/2 212; g35 9/25 804-807; g35 10/9 14; g35 11/20 108-110
Jehovah’s Witnesses:
book Crystal Night: g84 10/8 29
book The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity: w84 10/1 8
commendation for courage: g76 10/22 29
concentration camps: w81 6/15 6-12; yb80 102-103, 105-108; w79 11/1 5, 8-13; yb74 118-119, 193-208; w67 421-422; g65 6/8 29-30; w64 746-747; w61 246-248
life story of brother in Buchenwald: g85 6/22 10-13
narrow escapes from Gestapo: yb84 78-85, 98; yb80 109-112; yb74 137-138, 140-141, 143-145, 150-160
Nazi-Fascist attacks: g84 12/8 12-14
persecution: yb84 65-96; g83 5/22 23-26; g82 3/22 8; w81 6/15 7-12; w81 10/15 26-28; kc 157-159; w80 4/15 6-15; yb80 100-103, 105-112; w79 6/1 20; w79 10/1 9-10; w78 10/1 20-23; w78 12/1 7; g78 10/8 22; yb77 218-220; yb75 174; g75 2/22 22; yb74 108-128, 139, 151-190, 195-204, 210-212, 238; w73 571-573; w72 143-144, 395-399; yb72 134-136; g72 4/22 22-23; w70 218, 331-332; w69 264-265, 269; is 148-149; g69 9/8 12; w68 173-174, 598-602; g68 6/8 25; g68 12/22 28; w67 104, 187-190, 394; w66 552; w65 317, 356; yb65 23-24; w64 343, 659, 746-747; yb64 50-51; g64 5/8 13, 16; g64 6/22 27; w63 181-183, 568; bf 544; mg63 71; w62 668-670; g62 4/22 28; w61 245-248, 745; ns 329-330, 334; g61 7/22 12; g61 9/8 20; g40 7/10 6; g40 9/4 21; g38 1/26 21; g38 2/23 22; g38 12/14 9-11; g37 3/10 368-374
refused to compromise: g85 6/8 10-12
telegram sent to Hitler protesting brutal treatment of Witnesses: g84 12/8 14
Witness victory over: w81 3/15 6; w75 85; yb74 210-212, 216, 238, 249, 251
mass murder: w75 294; yb74 205-207
name Jehovah ordered erased from Protestant churches: g64 2/8 30
neo-Nazism: g85 6/8 3-4, 6-7
personality tests given leaders at Nürnberg: w76 626
philosophy: g85 6/8 10
practices: g85 4/8 9; w71 370; g64 5/8 10-18; g63 7/22 9, 15; w61 71, 116-117; g57 11/22 11; g46 5/22 4-6; g44 8/2 21; g42 10/28 12-13; g41 10/29 2-11; w40 169; g40 6/12 19-28; g40 6/26 18-22; g40 7/10 3-8; g40 7/24 19-25; g40 9/4 19-21; g39 6/28 19-25; g39 7/26 4-6; g39 8/9 18; g38 1/26 21-22; g38 2/23 22-23; g38 5/4 3-10; g38 5/18 10-16, 21; g38 8/10 23; g38 11/30 3-11; g38 12/14 3-11; en 14; g37 3/10 355-375; g37 11/17 25-29; g37 12/1 24; g36 4/8 421-432; g36 5/6 504-505; g36 12/30 216-218; g35 1/2 212; g35 2/27 338; g35 5/8 498; g35 7/3 618-619; g35 10/9 3-6, 12-16
Protestant clergy: g85 2/8 29; g85 6/8 8-9; g85 12/22 5; g75 2/22 19-20; g64 5/8 18; g38 2/23 23; g37 11/17 28; g36 4/8 422; g35 10/9 14
racism: g85 6/8 10; w73 515
Rader, Walter:
in prison in Italy: g80 11/8 29
rejection of: g85 6/8 8-12
letter on: g85 10/8 28
revival: g62 5/22 25-26
rise to power: g85 6/8 4-5; g41 9/17 4-10; w38 277; en 14; g37 3/10 355-363; g35 9/25 803-804; g35 11/20 108-110; g33 1/4 206-211
support by big business: g85 4/8 10
swastika: g80 3/22 30; g76 12/22 14
Thousand Year Reich: w79 10/15 3-4; ka 7-9
treatment of conquered lands: g85 6/8 10
war criminals: g68 6/8 6-7, 18, 21; w67 722; g67 8/8 4-5; g64 2/8 30; g63 10/8 30
legal proceedings: g85 6/8 3
worship of, promoted: g85 4/8 12
youth training: w71 370; g63 7/22 9; w61 246; g38 5/18 10-11; g37 12/1 24; g37 12/15 29
Quotations
basing their case on biblical commandment, [Jehovah’s Witnesses] refused to take up arms: g85 12/22 11
churches avoided uttering a word against the persecution of Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses: g83 5/8 30
churches complied, Witnesses opposed: w76 218
few Catholics refused military service under Hitler: g83 8/22 29
in contrast with the larger churches, Witnesses maintained their doctrinal opposition: w79 6/1 20
Nazism never quite equal to challenge offered by Witnesses: w70 218, 332; w61 247; w58 316
Nazis unable to master Witnesses: yb74 210-211
one SS officer commented that only a Witness could be trusted to shave his master with a cut throat razor: w84 10/1 8
only against the Witnesses was the government unsuccessful, for although they had killed thousands, the work [of preaching] went on: w84 10/1 8
the Earnest Bible Students, who rejected military service as a group, were the better Christians: g83 8/22 29
Witness determination in face of Gestapo terrorism: w76 218
Witnesses’ numbers had increased and no compromises had been made. The movement had gained martyrs and had successfully waged one more battle in Jehovah God’s war: w84 10/1 8
Witnesses proclaimed their outright doctrinal opposition from the beginning: g82 3/22 8; kc 157-158
Witnesses proved a small but memorable band of prisoners, noted for their courage and their convictions: w84 10/1 8
Witnesses were honest and completely trustworthy: w84 10/1 8
Witnesses were singled out for extermination by the Nazis: g81 8/8 29
Witnesses won their battle against Nazism: w81 3/15 6; hp 173