How many JW died in the concentration camps?

by LDH 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  LDH

  Sometimes numbers do change with research.

  
  

  
  I agree with this position 99% of the time.

  But when you spend YEARS telling people that you speak for Jehovah, and Jehovah supposedly knows how many sparrows fall to the ground, and he can count the hairs on your head, too, yes? Yet, he can't accurately count how many of his people were made musselmen for upwards of 50 years?

  Your magazine triumphantly declare itself as the paragon of truthfulness and the only way to salvation.

  Where'd this guy get his journalism credential?

  Lisa

  How many other numbers are suspect? Class
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  sir82

  Sounds to me like lazy, sloppy research and/or editing by the writing staff.

  Perhaps some of those numbers are of Germans who died in concentration camps, some numbers are of JWs of any nationality who died in a German-run camp, maybe they throw in some numbers of ones who died in a prison which was not a concentration camp, etc.

  One writer in 1974 looks up info from one source, while a different writer in 1980 looks up info from a different source, and whoever edits the stuff is too inept to look up the correct numbers himself, so he just assumes it.s right.

  Given the lazy/sloppy research in most of their journals, it wouldn't be a big surprise if that explains most of the discrepancies.
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  JH

  When I saw your title, I read, "How many JW died in the congregation camps"

  I guess many died in the congregation camps by not receiving proper medical treatment, such as blood transfusions when needed.
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  katiekitten

  None.

  They all committed adultery or fornication after they came out, according to the WBTS.