75th Anniversary of JW's Expose of Nazi Tryranny

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ETA: I just saw that the jw-media.org article is already here, but this is from a non-witness site. If moderators want to move it,

I don't have a problem with that.

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Here is one of many things that we can be proud of as Jehovah's people--

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Article from Digital Journal

75th anniversary of 15 minute expose' of Nazi tyranny

By Kevin Jess

Jun 21, 2012 - 3 hours ago in Religion

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75 years ago, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany distributed an “Open Letter” (Offener Brief) detailing the atrocities committed by Hitler’s regime throughout the German Reich.

On December 12, 1936, just a few months after the Gestapo had arrested thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses and other interested persons in a nationwide effort to stop their work, the Witnesses themselves conducted a campaign. With lightning speed they put tens of thousands of copies of a printed resolution in mailboxes and under the doors of people throughout Germany. These protested the cruel treatment being meted out to their Christian brothers and sisters. Within an hour the police were racing around trying to catch the distributors, but they laid their hands on only about a dozen in the entire country.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/327136#ixzz1xv24GLgE