dungbeetle/anybody/yb 1934

by Haereticus 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  Haereticus

  I guess yearbook also stated the number on publishers in Germany by 1933? I am interested as it seems that the society has quoted different figures during the years.
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  dungbeetle

  The earlier yearbooks are formatted differently than what we are used to today. No 'grids', just paragraphs alphabetically arranged. Here is what it said for Germany:

  "The special witness periods have been responded to loyally and faithfully by the workers in Germany. During the Thanksgiving period of the remnant there were 19, 268 workers in the field, which is more than at any time previous." (page 145)

  That's all it says, and the whole book is like this. Very few of the countries have publishers listed. The accounts go on and on about the literature--it's all about the literature.

  For 19931, the yearbook reads:

  "The service workers in the filed in Germany during the year were slightly above 10,000. The number of organized companies increased by 80." (page 123)

  And for 1934, no numbers at all are given.

  The book "Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis--Persecution, Deportation, and Murder 1933-1945" (2001) gives this on page x:

  "Jehovah's Witnesses were isolated and harrangued from 1933 on...Twenty Thousand among sixty-five million Germans..."

  I couldn't find in the book where it says the numbers came from.

  More to come...

  The book "Facing the Lion" (2000) says on page ix "Here was a small group of some 20 to 25,000 "average Germans" and those from other regions incorporated into the Third Reich..."

  In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
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  Haereticus

  dungbeetle

  This information is useful, thank you

  Mark
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  DakotaRed

  In the 1969 book, "Then Is Finished The Mystery Of God," page 121 is the following paragraph:

  "This was all preliminary to the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler, which began in 1933. During the spring of that year there were 19,268 Christina witnesses of Jehovah active in the field in Germany. Thery refused to follow the Nazi dictator as their Fuehrer, their Leader, and to have any share in his political and military aggressions. Because of such absolute, undivided devotion to Jehovah God and His kingdom by Christ they were thrown into prisons and concentration camps by the thousands. Despite World War II (1939 - 1945) they maintained their Christian neutrality, many of them even to the death. When World War II ended, two thousand of them had perished in their places of confinement, and of the 8,000 who came forth from concentration camps two thousand were incapacitated. In many cases, shortly after these faithful witnesses of Jehovah got out of Nazi concentration camps they were put into Communist prisons and concentration camps in East Germany."

  There is no documentation for these numbers.

  Also, in the Divine Purpose book, 1959, there are about three chapters devoted to the World War II era focusing on the endurance claimed by the Watchtower. Yet, in the three chapters, no numbers are acutally given that I can find. Neither of these books are included on the Watchtower CD.

  If God's Spirit is filling a Kingdom Hall, how is it that Satan can manuever the ones within that Kingdom Hall at the same time?