Hi GermanJW,You Said:
Initially, I want to repeat that I feel these remarks about death figures are tasteless.
I agree. But I am uncertain what you mean. Is it tasteless of the WTS to exploit the tragic deaths of these people because of Rutherford's idiot policy or what? Do you actually mean that it is tasteless of me to reveal what despicable liars they are in Brooklyn?All of these "historians" are used to launder or whitewash the false and exaggerated figures that has all originated with the WTS themselves. How is it tasteless to point this obvious fact out?Look at this typical example: “The book Mothers in the Fatherland reported: “[Jehovah’s Witnesses] were sent to concentration camps, a thousand of them were executed, and another thousand died between 1933 and 1945. . . . Catholics and Protestants heard their clergy urge them to cooperate with Hitler. If they resisted, they did so against orders from both church and state.” The Watchtower January 1. 1989, page 21.
This trick of quoting an outside source, which again is using the Watchtower as its source is not new. This method of “whitewashing” their own false figures is very deceptive. “Oh, this isn’t our numbers; the “researchers” have found it all out”. The source of the information in the “Mother of the Fatherland” book is quite evidently lifted from the Watchtower from 1950, which said:“Already during the Hitler regime about 1,000 Jehovah's witnesses were executed as traitors, because they not only refused to serve in the war but openly opposed Hitler's authority. Another 1,000 of Jehovah's witnesses died in prisons and concentration camps,” The Watchtower December 15. 1950, page 500.
So what's your real problem Gjw?Norm