That is a great point R215,
Then in Germany as now, we note a huge dichotomy between the sincere, often praiseworthy record of the rank and file, and the contemptible, of[t]en unprincipled behavior of the leadership.
Some 200 plus JWs were executed in Germany and I think a total of 600 plus died in Nazi Prisons (source is from the 1970s Watchtowers and Kent's site). These Rank and file members could leave any time unlike the Jews. All they had to do was renounce their faith. But these Rank and file people didn't and paid the price. Meanwhile the corporation leaders in Germany and New York were doing something a tad bit different. hawkhawk