Jehovah's Witnesses By emilygulledge Period: Jan 28, 1933 to May 7, 1945 Jehovah's Witnesses Jan 29, 1933 Jehovah's Witnesses were starting to be targeted or persecuted Mar 8, 1933 First concentration camp, Dachau, was established Apr 1, 1933 All religious literature printed by Jehovah's Witnesses is banned Oct 7, 1934 Telegrams of protest were sent to Hitler by Jehovah's Witnesses Jan 28, 1935 Began putting Jehovah's Witnesses into concentration camps Hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses began being put into concentration camps Apr 1, 1935 Witnesses working in postal offices or civil service jobs began being dismissed for refusing to give the Hitler salute Apr 1, 1935 Jehovah's Witness children taken from parents to be raised in Nazi homes Apr 1, 1935 Children of Jehovah's Witnesses are banned from school Feb 8, 1936 Mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses are sent to camps Apr 22, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is established which is where the first known use of the purple triangle to indicate who were Jehovah's Witnesses Apr 22, 1937 Gestapo order all Jehovah's Witnesses in prison be taken to concentration camps Nov 9, 1938 Night of the Broken Glass Nov 10, 1938 Night of the Broken Glass Continues Jan 20, 1942 Nazi officials formalize The Final Solution Jan 28, 1942 Their concentration camp work began to get easier May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders and the war in Europe ends