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The Witnesses were (and are) neutral in matters of war. They do not believe in war, nor will they participate in any such conflicts. Hitler did not like pacifists or conscientious objectors, and when the Witnesses refused to become Nazis or fight for the Fuehrer, they were imprisoned. Many died in the concentration camps. He also didn't like them because they would not salute.

Also, he was mad that he couldn't get some of the people to sign a paper to renounce their faith and serve him. I know this because I'm a Jehovah Witness and proud to be one. They were also the only group of people that could walk out of the prison camps by simply signing a document that said they would renounce their faith. Most never gave it another thought, they would rather die in the camp than turn their backs on their faith. Their show of unity even managed to impress the hardest of prison camp leaders.

The Watchtower 1st July 1953 explains: 'The facts are incontrovertibly established as to his [Hitler's] hatred for the chosen people of God in these times, Jehovah's Witnesses. And because the fleshly Jews were once themselves at one time God's chosen people they have always been the targets of attack by Satan and his dupes.'

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I heard that his father was witnessed by the Jehovah"s witnesses and "took him away" in a sense,from him because he became one and probably change himself. Maybe that's why he hated Jehovah's witnesses. because his father changed and he blamed it on Jehovah's witnesses. But i don't know if that's true.

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That is pure guesswork and nonsense. The Nazis' key objection to the JWs was their pacifism.

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Historian Brian Dunn answers this question. He identified three reasons for NAZI persecution against the Witnesses in Germany: (1) the international scope of the Witnesses, (2) their opposition to racism, and (3) their position of neutrality toward the State. Because of their Scriptural views, the German Witnesses refused to give the Hitler salute, to support the National Socialist Party, or later on to participate in military activities. Therefore, Hiitler saw the Witnesses as a threat, even though there was only a relatively few Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933.

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During World War II Hitler persecuted Jehovah's Witnesses (back then they were called Bibelforscher - Bible Students). He threw them into concentration camps and as a result some of them died. Jehovah's Witnesses were object of Nazi's hatred and persecution because they stayed politically neutral and refused to support Hitler's ideas. They stood up against this oppressor and obeyed God as ruler, not man.

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Please note some powerful commentaries: *** yb74 pp. 138-139 Part 2-Germany ***

DECLARATION-On October 7, 1934, having been previously summoned, I visited Dr. Wilhelm Frick, at that time Minister of the Interior of the Reich and Prussia, in his home office of the Reich, located in Berlin, 6 am Köenigsplatz, since I was a plenipotentiary of General Ludendorff. I was to accept communications, contents of which were an attempt to persuade General Ludendorff to discontinuance of his objection to the Nazi regime. During my discussion with Dr. Frick, Hitler suddenly appeared and began taking part in the conversation. When our discussion obligatorily dealt with the action against the International Bible Students Association [Jehovah's witnesses] in Germany up until now,

--Dr. Frick showed Hitler a number of telegrams protesting against the Third Reich's persecution of The Bible Students, saying: 'If the Bible Students do not immediately get in line we will act against them using the strongest means.' After which Hitler jumped to his feet and with clenched fists hysterically screamed: 'This brood will be exterminated in Germany!' Four years after this discussion I was able, by my own observations, to convince myself, during my seven years in protective custody in the hell of the Nazis' concentration camps at Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg and Mauthausen-I was in prison until released by the Allies-that Hitler's outburst of anger was not just an idle threat.

--No other group of prisoners of the named concentration camps was exposed to the sadism of the SS soldiery in such a fashion as the Bible Students were. It was a sadism marked by an unending chain of physical and mental tortures, the likes of which no language in the world can express." After we had sent our letters to Hitler, a wave of arrests took place. Hardest hit was Hamburg where, just a few days after October 7, the Gestapo arrested 142 brothers

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Because of their political, ideological, and military neutrality. Hitler offered Witnesses to save themselves from the concentration camps by signing a waver that stated they had renounced their faith and accepted Nazism. Very few accepted, and an estimated 10,000 JW's were sent to concentration camps. Of that, 2,500 were killed.

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*** yb87 p. 148 Switzerland and Liechtenstein ***

Brother Rutherford, a courageous and straightforward man, presented a resolution to the conventioners on the following day. It read in part: "We now sound the warning to the rulers in Germany and to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and to all like organizations that cruelly persecute the true and faithful followers of Christ Jesus, that the fate of such God declares is complete destruction. (Psalm 145:20)" A copy of this resolution was sent by registered letter both to the pope and to Hitler.

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Because they followed the true Bible that says not to fight and made a stand. Hitler didn't like this and put them in concentration camps

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