Any religion or entity that would not support the nazi's was condemned to suffering and death. Jehovah's Witnesses suffered torture and death because they did not renounce their faith. Their neutral stand for their faith caused them to be persecuted and many of them died because they did not support the Nazi confederates in their quest for world domination.
Has anyone realised that to get concrete information they should go to the official website http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Your edits wholly contradict every known encyclopedic reference of the purple triangle. Only Witnesses bore the purple triangle. Witnesses were also the only group that was their voluntarily and could leave at any time by signing a piece of paper renouncing their faith. Have you read the resources at the bottom of the page? Also your source does not cite it's own sources and likewise contradicts every known account including the United States Holocaust Museum:(
http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/jehovahs/jehovahsw.php?menu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394). Show me a reputable source that specifically names a group, or even a person that bore the purple triangle that was not a Jehovah's Witness.
Duffer
04:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Another link: http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/background/ideology.html, You may be right, but there is no evidence or even reference to any person that wore a purple triangle that was NOT a Jehovah's Witness. Duffer 04:59, 8 September 2007 (UTC) http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Have you read
WP:RS#What is a reliable source?. I did some more in-depth research and the only thing I could find, from what would be considered as a reliable source, is an excerpt on the Auschwitz.org website[
[1]] that cites the Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN, Warsaw, 1995, vol. l, p. 321:
According to the above it was only Witnesses and Witness splinter groups that were ever refered to as IBV, and again there is no evidence that any member of any of those splinter groups were ever in a death camp, much less bore the purple triangle. Another, more undeniable statement is found in Hans Hesses book: Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime pg. 18: "They were not counted among the political prisoners and naturally could not be counted among the criminals. They were an independent group and wore the purple triangle. They were persecuted, arrested, and committed to the camps, all because of their religious conviction. In the respect they occupied an exceptional position in the concentration camps. The purple triangle thus stood only for Jehovah's Witnesses and not for all prisoners of the religious opposition." Duffer 03:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Shilmer, did you find where it states that they also wore a purple triangle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.185.233.79 ( talk) 04:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Only Jehova's witnesses wore a purple triangle. If anyone wants to learn more about them in their official website go to: http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Nazism was actually quite anti-Christian and large parts of the Nazi elite were occultists. I recommend checking out the Wiki on [Nazi Mysticism]. They did not persecute Christianity because the majority of the Reich's inhabitants were Christian.
Waffleby (
talk)
10:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Any religion or entity that would not support the nazi's was condemned to suffering and death. Jehovah's Witnesses suffered torture and death because they did not renounce their faith. Their neutral stand for their faith caused them to be persecuted and many of them died because they did not support the Nazi confederates in their quest for world domination.
Has anyone realised that to get concrete information they should go to the official website http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Your edits wholly contradict every known encyclopedic reference of the purple triangle. Only Witnesses bore the purple triangle. Witnesses were also the only group that was their voluntarily and could leave at any time by signing a piece of paper renouncing their faith. Have you read the resources at the bottom of the page? Also your source does not cite it's own sources and likewise contradicts every known account including the United States Holocaust Museum:(
http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/jehovahs/jehovahsw.php?menu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005394). Show me a reputable source that specifically names a group, or even a person that bore the purple triangle that was not a Jehovah's Witness.
Duffer
04:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Another link: http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/background/ideology.html, You may be right, but there is no evidence or even reference to any person that wore a purple triangle that was NOT a Jehovah's Witness. Duffer 04:59, 8 September 2007 (UTC) http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Have you read
WP:RS#What is a reliable source?. I did some more in-depth research and the only thing I could find, from what would be considered as a reliable source, is an excerpt on the Auschwitz.org website[
[1]] that cites the Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN, Warsaw, 1995, vol. l, p. 321:
According to the above it was only Witnesses and Witness splinter groups that were ever refered to as IBV, and again there is no evidence that any member of any of those splinter groups were ever in a death camp, much less bore the purple triangle. Another, more undeniable statement is found in Hans Hesses book: Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime pg. 18: "They were not counted among the political prisoners and naturally could not be counted among the criminals. They were an independent group and wore the purple triangle. They were persecuted, arrested, and committed to the camps, all because of their religious conviction. In the respect they occupied an exceptional position in the concentration camps. The purple triangle thus stood only for Jehovah's Witnesses and not for all prisoners of the religious opposition." Duffer 03:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Shilmer, did you find where it states that they also wore a purple triangle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.185.233.79 ( talk) 04:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Only Jehova's witnesses wore a purple triangle. If anyone wants to learn more about them in their official website go to: http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm
Nazism was actually quite anti-Christian and large parts of the Nazi elite were occultists. I recommend checking out the Wiki on [Nazi Mysticism]. They did not persecute Christianity because the majority of the Reich's inhabitants were Christian.
Waffleby (
talk)
10:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)