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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich : sectarian politics under persecution / M. James Penton.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penton, M. James, 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916.
- Russell, C. T.
- Rutherford, J. F. (Joseph Franklin), 1869-1942.
- Rutherford, J. F.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--History.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (443 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government. --from publisher description.
- Contents:
- The Watch Tower Society's Attempted Compromise with Hitler
- Watch Tower Holocaust Propaganda and Responses to Charges of Compromise and Anti-Semitism
- Evaluating the Arguments and the Evidence
- Rutherford's New Nation
- 'The Theocracy' in America
- German Bible Student-Jehovah's Witnesses, 1902-1933
- Jehovah's Witnesses in the Crucible of Nazi Persecution
- Riding the Holocaust Bandwagon.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-393) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-281-99246-1
- 9786611992460
- 1-4426-7640-X
- OCLC:
- 244768737
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