The Watchtower and Hitler


The Watchtower's Nazis Conflicts
A historical analysis of the Jehovah's Witnesses' during World War II concluded that they experienced extreme conflicts with Nazi Germany and probably withstood the attacks against them better than most groups. Their experience has been analyzed by a number of researchers including camp inmates and administrators who have concluded that their strong religious faith, community and social pressure to conform were all critical in helping Witnesses to withstand the Nazi assault against them. A major reason Witnesses endured was because to capitulate to the Nazis meant disfellowshipping and cutting off from what was often their only social support, their fellow Witnesses. Often the Witnesses as people showed exemplary behavior, but the Watchtower administration not uncommonly displayed immoral or deceitful behavior and even denigrated the Jews in an effort to save the German Watchtower branch. Although partly to blame for the tragedy, the Watchtower unscrupulously exploits it today to try to prove their claim of being God's only representatives on earth today.

Jehovah's Witness - The German Connection

The Broadcasting Standards Commission received a complaint from the Jehovah's Witnesses Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society about unjust or unfair treatment, in Everyman: Sleeping with the Enemy, broadcast on BBC1 on 13 December 1998.



Proposal From The Jehovah's Witnesses Organization - Making Money From The Dead!
As you may know, victims from the Nazi camps can get compensation, and the Watchtower has naturally found a new way to get money - from the dead! They propose that THEY will get the money - and "give it away to needy JWs". Since when did the Watchtower do anything of the kind? Their registration as a "charitable" organization is nothing but a tax fraud, and now they are stealing from the dead!

What happened when the Jehovah's Witnesses were Outlawed
The Awake! issue of 22 August 1995, is completely silent as to why Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany were outlawed in 1933 or how it was that they were persecuted under the Hitler regime. Parts 2 - 4 of this series have already demonstrated that originally the leaders and spokesmen of that religion's governing organization, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York, sought to compromise with the Nazis rather than confronting them as has long been claimed.

Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich:
Since the Second World War, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has taught Jehovah's Witnesses that while the German churches, both Catholic and Protestant, were guilty of compromise with Hitler and the Nazi Party, their German brethren, then commonly known as "Earnest Bible Students," stood solidly against the principles of the Third Reich. Because of the brave stand taken by most ordinary German Witnesses in the face of a terrible persecution that cost many of them their lives in Hitler's concentration camps, they have rightly been praised by secular historians - a fact which the Watch Tower Society has used to buttress its assertions.

Document B - Declaration of Facts
"This company of German people, who are peaceable and law-abiding citizens
representing many others from every part of Germany, all of whom are earnestly
laboring for the highest welfare of the people of this land, being now duely
assembled at Berli

Document A - Konrad Franke's Testimony
Konrad Franke, later Watch Tower Society branch servant (director or overseer) for Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, was present at the June 26, 1933 Witness convention in Berlin. In 1976 Franke gave a series of two part lectures (which lasted about three hours in all) in many places throughout West Germany. These lectures were entitled "The History of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany." Significantly, they contained information on the 1933 Berlin convention which has never been published by the Watch Tower Society. Those lectures were tape recorded and have been transcribed in full. The statement which appears below is an English translation of remarks taken from them:

SHOULD PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES PRINT BOOKS?
A photograph in the Watchtower book, True Peace and Security, How Can You Find It?, depicts several officials of the Roman Catholic clergy rendering a Heil Hitler salute.1 This is indicative of the Watchtower's never ending condemnation of the church, whom they allege "compromised woefully"2 during the second world war. Yet, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Or, as Jesus so eloquently put it, "How can you take the speck out of your brother's eye when you've got a plank hanging out of your own?" Whether the Church endorsed or denounced the tenants of Nazism is not the thrust of this study. What is germane, however, is the fact that Watchtower leadership themselves attempted to compromise "woefully" with the German Reich!

An Open Letter From M. James Penton, PhD to Milton G. Henschel
August 11, 1995
Milton G. Henschel, President
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
25 Columbia Heights
Brooklyn, New York
U.S.A. 11201

Holocaust Poodles
The latest cowardly abdication of the truth comes from those who dare to call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs). The JWs are filthy rich these days and control some of the most valuable real estate in Brooklyn, a province which is otherwise the wholly owned subsidiary of the you-know-whos.


The Watchtower is Lying About Their Connection With the Nazis
I finally got my hands on the much heralded July 8, 1998 issue of Awake!
The article about the “courageous” Jehovah’s Witnesses was quite
interesting indeed. Although the article quoted a surprisingly amount of the
more embarrassi

The Watchtower and the Third Reich - a cover up from the Watchtower
The August 22nd, 1995 issue of 'Awake!' magazine presented a special article marking the 50th anniversary of liberating the concentration camps in Europe during WWII. The article was entitled, "The Holocaust, Who Spoke Out?"

Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich: (Part 2)
KONRAD FRANKE'S TESTIMONY
Konrad Franke, later Watch Tower Society branch servant (director or overseer) for
Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, was present at the June 26, 1933 Witness convention in
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JWs, Hitler and "Spiritual Fornication"
The Watchtower Society is currently white- washing their history concerning their Nazi concentration camp experience.

Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich: (part 1)
Since the Second World War, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has taught Jehovah's Witnesses that while the German churches, both Catholic and Protestant, were guilty of compromise with Hitler and the Nazi Party, their German brethren, then commonly known as "Earnest Bible Students," stood solidly against the principles of the Third Reich. Because of the brave stand taken by most ordinary German Witnesses in the face of a terrible persecution that cost many of them their lives in Hitler's concentration camps, they have rightly been praised by secular historians-a fact which the Watch Tower Society has used to buttress its assertions.

Erich Frost - Watchtower Leader and Traitor!
An article in the German Magazine Der Spiegel, July 19 1961, has an interesting article about Jehovah's Witnesses and their history during the war. The rank and file in Jehovahs Witnesses did not compromize that much. But their leaders - that's another story. Eric Frost was present on a convention in Hamburger Stadtpark July 22. 1961, a convention where the Watchtower president Nathan Homer Knorr was present. Frost was the Watchtower leader in Germany, and then Konrad Franke got that position.

Erich Frost - the leader of the German Branch office before and AFTER the war, was a traitor.
Erich Frost - the leader of the German Branch office before and AFTER the war, was a traitor. To save his own skin, he sold out other members of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Here is the evidence!

Collaboration Covered-Up
The WatchTower Society chooses to cover up many things associated with the Nazi era - the appeasing letter to Hitler, the hymns written to the tune of Deutschland ueber Alles and the Anti-Semitic tract 'Declaration of Facts'. The following case is somewhat different, in that the cover-up is of an individual Watchtower employee, rather than the corporation as a whole. The man's name is Erich Frost, the chief Watchtower represenatative in Germany during the war years.

Are JWs Un-American and Un-Patriotic?
JWs will point to their taxpaying and law-abiding nature, of which they are (to some extent justifiably) proud, and at one time (Qualified to be Ministers book) it was the done thing to accuse hecklers at JW meetings of being `Un-American' (this was of course in the MacArthian days). In earlier days, the USA was presented in glowing terms (to justify the WTS encouragement for it's followers to buy war bonds):

Beyond Revisionism - Historical Hubris and the WatchTower Society
Where other groups have attempted to cover-up and rewrite their histories during Nazi times, the Watchtower Society has had much greater success in such endeavours - even securing for themselves a place in the US National Holocaust Museum, a source of much pride for their followers. An astonishing example of their ability to reverse history is displayed in this 1995 article.

Sleeping with the Enemy—Watchtower Style
A photograph in the Watchtower book, True Peace and Security, How Can You Find It?, depicts several officials of the Roman Catholic clergy rendering a Heil Hitler salute.1 This is indicative of the Watchtower's neverending condemnation of the church, whom they allege "compromised woefully"2 during the second world war. Yet, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Or, as Jesus so eloquently put it, "How can you take the speck out of your brother's eye when you've got a plank hanging out of your own?" Whether the Church endorsed or denounced the tenants of Nazism is not the thrust of this study. What is germane, however, is the fact that Watchtower leadership themselves attempted to compromise "woefully" with the German Reich!

Can we trust The Watchtower's explanation about their relations to Hitler?
The following are from the 1934 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses.  For contrast, please compare this information to the 1996 WTB&TS video entitled "Stand Firm", which boasts of the strict neutrality of Jehovah' Witnesses during World War II and Nazi Germany.