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To: EveningStar
(excerpt) If Heinrich Himmler had gotten his way, Eastern Europe would have converted to a different religion: Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Nazis slaughtered tens of thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses in concentration camps. But for all he’d murdered them en masse, Himmler had a strange respect for the religion. “If their fanaticism could be harnessed for Germany,” he once said, “we would be stronger than we are today!” In Himmler’s eyes, Jehovah’s Witnesses had the perfect combination of fanatical work ethic and pacifism that would keep them working hard and stop them from violently resisting the fascist regime. He even gave specific orders to one of his officers, Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to push the religion on Eastern Europe. That would have been the strange reality of life under a global Nazi regime. There would have been slavery, genocide, and weapons of mass destruction, but there also would have been a whole lot of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
3 posted on 08/20/2017 12:12:18 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: heterosupremacist

In Himmler’s world if one did not receive JW’s at the door cheerfully at 9:00 am on a Saturday morning they would have had the right to shoot you and burn your house down.


22 posted on 08/20/2017 1:17:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tyranny can hide within decorum.)
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