Between
Resistance and Martyrdom
Jehovah's Witnesses in
the Third Reich
Detlef Garbe
Translated by Dagmar G. Grimm
The little-known persecution of Jehovah's
Witnesses under the Nazi dictatorship
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.
- First English-language edition
- German edition, Zwischen Widerstand
und Martyrium, 1993 hardcover, Oldenbourg
Published in association with the United
States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
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May 2008
864 pp.
6 x 9
18 photos, 17 charts, 15 tables
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