I'll probably update p.6 of "GTJ Brooklyn" with some of this.
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id20.html
A pfd of the Oct.9, 1935 Golden Age (not the German edition) is at the next link.
http://wtarchiv.kilu.de/index_e.htm
Inside title page: 5 cents a copy, $1 a year except Canada and foreign $1.25.
For a while, all I knew about this issue was the phrase
"Mistreatment of Fleshly Israel," so I thought it might be
about propaganda against and persecution of the Jews in Nazi
Germany instead of the usual JWs leaders' propaganda about
whatever non-JWs, including Jews, seen in other JWs leaders'
literature of the time. But a standard part of the way
Rutherford and Hitler made false claims of exclusiveness
about themselves and their followers was to propagandize
against certain other whole groups of people, and this issue
continues Russell's and Rutherford's propaganda against Catholics.
P.4 There's an account of workers in Berlin on May Day being forced to parade
to Tempelhof Field to see Hitler. "What do you think about that, you Americans?
Is that what you want in America? Well, it is what you will get, if the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy is allowed to have its way."
P.6 "Mistreatment of Fleshly Israel" gives realistic accounts, mainly quoting
other sources, of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
But I didn't see any Jws listed in the section of religious people (including
Catholics) who assisted Jews in fleeing the Holocaust in the article at the next
link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_and_groups_assisting_Jews_during_the_Holocaust
However, the Golden Age account of Nazi persecution of the Jews is used as a
prelude for their own article about what they consider even worse on pp.7-11:
P.7 "The Devil's Real Target--Jehovah's witnesses." The Watchtower claim is
that persecution of Rutherford's followers is more important to the Devil be-
cause they're the only true followers of God (see pp.17,18). The Golden Age ac-
cused Roman Catholics of being to blame for German newspaper quotes critical of
Rutherford and his followers, including that the followers are Communists,
though the newspapers don't give Catholics as the authors and Rutherford had
clearly created enmity with Hitler's government for years by then.
P.8 "Let the New York Times take note that the Roman Catholic hierarchy has no
reason to fear what its clerk, Hitler, will do against it. All of its columns
and columns of stuff about proposed attacks on ther Catholics and Protestants
was intended to cover up the fact that Germany at that very time had about 2,000
of Jehovah's witnesses in prison, and was putting more of them in prison every
day.
"Papal Control of the News
"THE New York Times of July 20 tells of twenty-two of Jehovah's witnesses sen-
tenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two months to three years, at Wei-
mar, Germany, because they rejected military service and the Hitler salute.
Their identity was concealed by the name 'Bible Researchers': the news about
them was crammed into one inch in the center of a column-long article filled
with pure bunk as to what Hitler was 'about' to do to Jews, Catholics, and Pro-
testants. It was sent out by the Associated Press and was clearly prepared un-
der Roman Catholic Hierarchy control--all camouflage of the facts."
Rutherford practically called "Nazi" and "Catholic" synonyms. Accounts that
are more trustworthy about Hitler vs. Catholicism, such as the Nazi government
causing the imprisonment of thousands of priests, hundreds of whom died, etc.,
are at the next links. Rutherford would have shown better care and strategy if
he had avoided risking his followers' necks unnecessarily and had them join
those of the Catholics and others who were against Hitler in other ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_20th_century#Catholics_and_Protestants_under_the_Third_Reich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Germany#Catholicism_and_the_Third_Reich
P.11 has the misleading sub-heading "The Crime of Being a Christian" for a
section on Nazi persecution of Jws. Actually, Hitler didn't have a plan to ex-
terminate the Jws like he did for the Jews but only stop the Jws if they got in
his way politically. Rutherford requiring his followers to agree with his vari-
ation of Rom.13 was a personal effort at exclusiveness, not a scriptural neces-
sity, and the Nazis only persecuted JWs if they refused to renounce Rutherford,
not Christ.
Ironically, the Golden Age even blamed the Catholics for getting a lot of
Rutherford's followers imprisoned, though the imprisonments, even deaths, were
mostly due to Rutherford threatening Hitler that Rutherford would send unarmed
German JWs into German streets with tracts meant to destroy Hitler's government
with criticism and Rutherford encouraging his followers to become martyrs. And
since a bigger part of the German population was Catholic, Rutherford propagan-
dizing against them would only give Hitler more of a political motivation to
persecute Rutherford's followers.
Page 17 and 18 Rutherford gave his organization as God's only organization
and made a literature sales pitch in "God's Organization." "The end of the
world has now come, and within a short time Jesus Christ as the mighty Officer
of Jehovah will destroy Satan's power; but before doing so the Lord sends forth
men and women as His witnesses to tell the people of His purpose and of His pro-
vision for their blessings. For that reason Jehovah's witnesses now come to you
with books...." (See the footnote)
Seven pages under the heading "Political--Domestic and Foreign" are mainly
meant to connect Hitler and Catholicism and have subtitles like "Hitler Catholic
at Heart." For example:
P.18 "The job of the Jesuits is to make it seem desirable, even necessary,
that the government of mankind should be turned over to the Roman hierarchy."
"Every reader of The Golden Age will be fascinated, but more than fascinated;
for he will be instructed as to just how the Devil is working his game. The
article takes down the screens and lets the honest reader see just how the Jesu-
its are planning world control by Fascism, and how they are succeeding."
A Wikipedia article about Jesuits is at the next link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus
Pages 30,31 As if Rutherford's followers didn't have enough problems, there's
a batch of medical advice from Clayton Woodworth (see "Blood transfusions aren't
the only things the Watchtower leaders have had distinctive medical ideas or
rules about" on p.11 of "GTJ Brooklyn"). Due to previous Golden Age articles
recommending that followers not get vaccinated for smallpox, p.31 has an article
commending a parent who describes the legal troubles they went though for not
vaccinating their public school-age child against smallpox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
Footnote:
"During World War I God's people expected it to lead directly into Arma-
geddon, but Jehovah prevented such a climax at that time. We didn't succumb to
such an expectation during World War II." ("Kingdom Ministry," Jan.,1968, p.5)