For years after WW2, they tried to suggest that JWs were persecuted for their religion in Germany, while Jews were only imprisoned for being of the Jewish race.
That's what I heard as a child - that Jews never had a choice of being persecuted, but JWs 'chose' to be by refusing to denounce their 'Faith'. Hasn't the WTBTS even tried to benefit from individual JWs who died..?