Johannes Wrobel, the founder of the Watchtower History Archives in Germany, responsible for the Stand Firm-Video and the Stand-Firm-Exhibitions resigned in November 2008 and left the German branch office. He was also the responsible person for many of the WT sponsored WebSites on JW in the 'Third Reich'!
There are no further details known yet but this could be big news!
He has set up a small website at http://www.jwrobel.de. There he states his whole c.v. including that he resigned as the leader of the Watchtower History Archives in November 08 and that he cancelled his service for the Watchtower Society after 36 years. For the time being, he returned to private life but is available for the support of research projects by request. Finally, he thanks all friends, collegues for their support in the research projects on Bible Students/JW.
His official English summary:
"Johannes S. Wrobel is a writer and researcher on the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany and their persecution during the national socialist and communist periods. In April 1996, he founded the Watchtower History Archive of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Selters/Taunus (Germany) and directed it until November 2008. Presently he lives close to Reutlingen city. He has lectured in Austria, England, Germany, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Israel, and the United States and contributed papers to Hans Hesse (ed.), Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime 1933-1945 (Bremen, 2001) and Gerhard Besier and Clemens Vollnhals (eds.), Repression und Selbstbehauptung: die Zeugen Jehovas unter der NS- und der SED-Diktatur (Berlin, 2003). His most recent essays were published in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History (2003), in Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel (eds.), Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager (vols 2 and 4, Munich, 2005 and 2006), and Religion, State & Society, The Keston Journal (no. 34, 2006)."
This all sounds a bit strange.