Jehovah's Witnesses Research Paper

To die for what you believe in

The Holocaust is known for the mass murders of Jewish people under the power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, which is also known as the National Socialist group, but there were many other groups that were persecuted during this time. The National Socialist group also persecuted Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks, handicapped and disabled, and last but not least Jehovah’s Witnesses. Jehovah’s Witnesses were not persecuted because of their racial appearances but because of their religion. Sometimes religion can be more important than your own life. The Jehovah’s Witnesses were targeted because of their refusal to swear loyalty to the Nazi’s or to serve in their armed forces. (Jehovah’s Witness: Article)
Before the Holocaust started, the Jehovah’s Witnesses were actually targets of other groups “Mainstream Lutheran and Catholic churches deemed them heretics. Moreover, citizens often found the
“The number of Jehovah’s Witnesses who died in concentration camps and prisons during the Nazi era is estimated at 1,000 Germans and 400 from other countries.” Although with that statistic, it is believed that more Germans died than others but non-German Jehovah’s Witnesses had it worse. Many of them were executed for refusing in the German military. 250 people died in many gruesome ways. Some were beheaded like Helene Gotthold, many were worked to death in concentration camps, and many just died on the spot. The persecution of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was wrong. These people who stood up for what they believed in died in pain, in horrible gruesome ways that nobody should have to. The work of the Jehovah’s Witness proved to be a very strong faith. Because of the Jehovah Witnesses that died for their religion, many could say that religion is not as important as their life, but for these people it