Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich : a study of sectarian politics under persecution viewed from a historical perspective / M. James Penton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penton, M. James, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.

Jehovah's Witnesses.

Jehovah's Witnesses--History.

Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916.

Russell, C. T.

Rutherford, J. F. (Joseph Franklin), 1869-1942.

Rutherford, J. F.

Jehovah's Witnesses--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

xxii, 412 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Contents:

1 The Watch Tower Society's Attempted Compromise with Hitler 6

2 Watch Tower Holocaust Propaganda and Responses to Charges of Compromise and Anti-Semitism 29

3 Evaluating the Arguments and the Evidence 63

4 Rutherford's New Nation - 'The Theocracy' in America 100

5 German Bible Student-Jehovah's Witnesses, 1902-1933 136

6 Jehovah's Witnesses in the Crucible of Nazi Persecution 160

7 Riding the Holocaust Bandwagon 208

Appendix B A Watch Tower Society 1929 Anti-Nazi Statement 251

Appendix C Documents Relating to the Watch Tower Society's Attempt to Compromise with Nazism 256

Appendix D U.S. State Department Documents Relating to Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933 297

Appendix E Documents Relating to the Watch Tower's Attacks on Nazism 312

Appendix F German Watch Tower Attempts to Escape Nazi Persecution 324

Appendix G Nazi Documents Relating to the Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses 335

Appendix H Character Descriptions of J.F. Rutherford 363

Appendix I An Analysis of the Numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses Imprisoned and Killed in Nazi Germany 374.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802089275

0802086780

OCLC:

56010956