Years ago, there was an episode of the TV show "The Waltons" (S5E5), growing up it was one of my favorites, Google it if you do not know what it is. But there was an episode that always stood out to me, where a report reached the Walton family and their friends that books were being burned in Nazi Germany. This was brought to the fore because a German family had moved on the mountain. Since the people could not understand German, they let fear control their actions and they gathered all the books the German family had to burn them. John-Boy being the hero of the show picked up a book and started reading, who knew. But then he translated. It was the Bible. I have never forgotten that episode, even as a child it burned in my memory. Now all grown up and one of Jehovah's Witnesses I learn a hard fact. Most of the Bibles burned by Nazi Germany were Bible's printed on the presses or shipped in by Jehovah's Witnesses. Hard to believe? I will post a comment from the Divine Purpose book now, but later when I get to a book not published by Watchtower, but by historians, I will post their excerpt. In fact, the largest number of books burned were ISBA and Bibles, second to that were Jewish, then educational books. This is not difficult to prove, so over time check this post as I will be adding excerpts from other books as I get them read. For now, this is from the "Divine Purpose" book page 131. "The German government entered an order for the release of all the Society's property and turned it back into the possession of the brothers there. However, the order that had been entered in June at the time that the property was seized had also placed a ban on the preaching activities of the Society. This was not lifted, and in the period from June to October the government police had seized and carried away and burned over $25,000 worth of literature, books, booklets, Bibles and other materials belonging to the Society. Meetings of the Witnesses were forbidden and distribution of the literature halted." When I think about this, I get chills, we have all watched blockbuster movies of Nazi's burning books, but many do not realize, most of those were IBSA and Bibls from Watchtower Org. Today that would be $580,958.33, over 1/2 million dollars. There is a publication that gives the number of Bibles once I get to it, I'll update this post. I can only read a book so fast. I have about 12 piled up next to my chair. So give me time. I will also post some facts about Hitler's attacks on Jehovah's Wintesses from several sources and some outside Watchtower.
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December 2024
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