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Advance Praise for
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis
"The Jehovah's Witnesses were in a special category of victims of
the Holocaust. The principal victims-Jews and Gypsies-were
existentially doomed. But the Witnesses could escape the fate that
awaited them: they had only to say
'Heil Hitler'
and renounce their
faith. Most refused and many were murdered. The purely volun-
tary nature of their sacrifice puts them in a unique category, and
their story sheds new and strange lights on some of the workings
of the Holocaust."-Conor Cruise O'Brien, diplomat, historian,
and author of
Merrwirs: My Life and Themes
"These courageous people must be seen as heroic and martyred
for the sustained moral stand that they made against the killing
and the killers."-Alan Adelson, Executive Director, The Jewish
Heritage Project, and producer/director (with Kathryn Taverna) of
the acclaimed film and book,
Lodz Ghetto
"In Hitler's Germany the Jehovah's Witnesses were interned in
concentration camps and often executed. Their children were
taken away from them in order to be brainwashed and their prop-
erties confiscated. All this occurred because the Witnesses refused
to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler and the state and because
they refused to bear arms."-Radu Ioanid, author of
The Holo-
caust in Romania
and editor of Mihail Sebastian's
Journal:
1935-
1944
"In this book nothing is left to the imagination in showing that,
despite the Nazis' treatment of the Witnesses, no other political or
religious group during Hitler's regime rejected it more fervently
and consistently than did the Witnesses. Nor did any such group
demonstrate the constant sympathy or concern for other victims
of Nazism that the Witnesses did."-Donald M. McKale, author
of
Hitler: The Survival Myth
and the forthcoming
Hitler's Shadow
War: The Holocaust and World War II
THE
JEHOVAH'S
'NITNESSES
AND
THE
NAZIS
Persecution, Deportation, and Murder,
1933-1945
Michel Reynaud
and Sylvie Graffard
Translated
by
james
A.
Moorhouse
lntroduaion by Michael Berenbaum
First Cooper Square Press edition 2001
This Cooper Square Press hardcover edition of
The
]elwvah's Witnesses and
the
Nazis
is
an original English-language translation of
the
edition first published under the title
Les
Bibelforscher
et le
nazisme
in Paris, France, in 1999, and here supplemented with new
photographs and an introduction by Michael Berenbaum. It is reprinted by arrangement
with the authors. The photographs are reproduced by arrangement with Archive Photos
and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo captions and bibliography from
the French-language edition translated by Steven P.
La
Greca.
C SARL Editions Tiresias-Michel Reynaud, 1990-1999
Translated with the help of the French Ministry of Culture.
English-language translation copyright
©
2001 by Editions Tiresias-Michel Reynaud
English-language edition copyright © 2001 by Michel Reynaud
Introduction copyright
©
2001 by Michael Berenbaum
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Graffard, Sylvie.
[Bibelforscher et le nazisme, 1933-1945. English]
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: persecution, deportation,
and murder, 1933-1945
I
Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard; translation
by James A. Moorhouse ; introduction by Michael Berenbaum.-lst Cooper
Square Press
ed.
p.
em.
Original French ed. By Sylvie Gr.ill"ard and
Uo
Tristan; published
by Editions Tiresias-Michel Reynaud; translation supplemented with new
photographs and new introduction
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8154-1076-X (alk. Paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8154-1076-8
1.
Jehovah's Witnesses-Nazi persecution. 2. National socialism.
3. Germany-Politics and govemment-1933-1945. 4.
Germany-Religion-1933-1945. I. Reynaud, Michel,
1951- . II.
Title.
BX8525.8.G3 G713 2001
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requirements of American National Standard for Information
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