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Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich
Detlef Garbe
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Paperback. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses caught the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS. This is a comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Translator(s): Grimm, Dagmar G. Num Pages: 856 pages, 18 photos, 17 charts, 15 tables. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses caught the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS.Although persecuted and banned from practicing their beliefs by the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jehovah's Witnesses' unified resistance has been largely forgotten. Basing his work on a wide range of sources, including documents and archives previously unconsidered as well as critical analyses of Jehovah's Witness literature ... Read more
Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses caught the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS.Although persecuted and banned from practicing their beliefs by the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jehovah's Witnesses' unified resistance has been largely forgotten. Basing his work on a wide range of sources, including documents and archives previously unconsidered as well as critical analyses of Jehovah's Witness literature ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
856
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299207946
SKU
V9780299207946
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About Detlef Garbe
Detlef Garbe is director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications about the history of the concentration camps, Jehovah's Witnesses and other marginal victim groups, military justice, and Germany's postwar confrontations with the National Socialist past. He is also the editor of Beitrage zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland. Dagmar ... Read more
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