Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime
Hans Hesse
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations (some colour). BIC Classification: HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1192.
More than 50 years after the end of the Third Reich, Jehovah's Witnesses, like Sinti and Roma, continue to be forgotten victims in the broader public’s consciousness. Only recently have historians and concentration camp memorials increasingly focused on this category of inmates who were marked and stigmatized in concentration camps with purple triangles. Through 22 articles, 19 authors employ the latest research in Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi Regime to summarize the multifaceted history of those prisoners in the Wewelsburg, Sachsenhausen and Moringen concentration camps. Comprehensively, this volume includes a lens on the persecution of ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9783861087502
SKU
V9783861087502
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99-15
About Hans Hesse
Hans Hesse received his master's degree in history from the Free University, Berlin and is a freelance author. He is author of Hoffnung ist ein ewiges Bergäbnis: Edition des Briefwechsels von Hannah Vogt aus dem KZ Moringen 1933 (Bremen, 1998).
Reviews for Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime
"We must be grateful for this book, deeply grateful. In essay after essay we read of the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi concentration camps. Some of the essays tell large stories. The other essays tell small stories of a few individuals - stories that illuminate the whole. Part of this work addresses the situation of the Witnesses in Germany... ... Read more