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A new book has been published from German to English around May of 2008. The book is entitled "Between Resistance and Martyrdom" - Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich - by Detlef Garbe. and it was translated by Dagmar G. Grimm.

In Garbe preface to the English edition in Hamburg of November of 2007, on page xix par. 2, he says:

"... However, it was not possible to incorporate findings of more recent literature. For instance, the new book by M. James Penton, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics under Persecution (University of Toronto Press, 2004), has not been taken into consideration. In thsi context, however, I would like to refer the reader to my comments about Penton's previous publications, which he also uses as a basis for his new study. His statements, source selection, and interpretation reflect a deep-seated aversion against this religious association, of which he had once been a member. According to Penton's new theory, in 1931/1932 the Watch Tower Society's President Rutherford made adjustment in the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses with regard to determining its relationship to Judaism because, in Germany, everything pointed the fact Hitler would come to power. In this way, Rutherford supposedly wanted to adapt to anti-Semitic aggression of National Socialism. Contemporary literature does not support such assumptions. In fact, reports in Jehovah's Witnesses' magazine Golden Age during that time period show that, in the publications of Jehovah's Witnesss, the Hitler movement was clearly criticized as being ungodly and anti-Semitism was strongly condemned. Penton does indeed have a right to hold reservations against the religious teachings and pratices of Jehovah's Witnesses, but from a historiographic viewpoint Penton's writings perhaps show a lack of scientific objectivity."


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Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses received the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS.

Although persecuted and banned from practicing their beliefs by the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jehovah's Witnesses' unified resistance has been largely forgotten. Basing his work on a wide range of sources, including documents and archives previously unconsidered as well as critical analyses of Jehovah's Witness literature and survivor interviews, Detlef Garbe chronicles the Nazis' relentless persecution of this religious group before and during World War II.

The English-language edition of this important work features photographs not published in the German edition. These striking images bring a sense of individual humanity to this story and help readers comprehend the reality of the events documented. Between Resistance and Martyrdom is an indispensable work that will introduce an English-speaking audience to this important but lesser-known part of Holocaust history.

"Between Resistance and Martyrdom is a strong book that tells a compelling and deeply important, understudied story."–Michael Berenbaum, author of Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis.

Detlef Garbe is director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications about the history of the concentration camps, Jehovah's Witnesses and other marginal victim groups, military justice, and Germany's postwar confrontations with the National Socialist past. He is also the editor of Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland.

Dagmar G. Grimm is a native of Bremen, Germany, who now lives in the United States. Her work as a translator and editor includes other works on the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under the Nazi regime as well as under communist rule in East Germany.

Thanks for that post JW1983