Jehovah's Witnesses

By emilygulledge
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    Jehovah's Witnesses

  • Jehovah's Witnesses were starting to be targeted or persecuted

  • First concentration camp, Dachau, was established

  • All religious literature printed by Jehovah's Witnesses is banned

  • Telegrams of protest were sent to Hitler by Jehovah's Witnesses

  • Began putting Jehovah's Witnesses into concentration camps

    Hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses began being put into concentration camps

  • Witnesses working in postal offices or civil service jobs began being dismissed for refusing to give the Hitler salute

  • Jehovah's Witness children taken from parents to be raised in Nazi homes

  • Children of Jehovah's Witnesses are banned from school

  • Mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses are sent to camps

  • Buchenwald concentration camp is established which is where the first known use of the purple triangle to indicate who were Jehovah's Witnesses

  • Gestapo order all Jehovah's Witnesses in prison be taken to concentration camps

  • Night of the Broken Glass

  • Night of the Broken Glass Continues

  • Nazi officials formalize The Final Solution

  • Their concentration camp work began to get easier

  • Germany surrenders and the war in Europe ends