[Elsie]

Why is it that '..the rest of the story...' contains so much needed data?

[Campion]

The term for “Jehovah’s Witness” auf Deutsch literally means “Bible student” or “Bible researcher,” hence Beck’s confusion.

[NTHockey]

>>Let me add that I am not saying I would have done any better than the Mormons or the Baptists. I would have wanted to protect my family and so I would have wanted to leave the country or do what I had to do to keep my family safe.<<

Not to defend Beck, but to point out the hypocrisy of criticizing the Mormons and Southern Baptists for doing EXACTLY what he would do.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Okay, so Beck played a little fast and loose with the data in regards to purple armbands and the Nazis. Okay, so LDS was trying to save their own skins during Hitler’s rein. Nowhere in this article does it say the Mormon church was actively participating in crimes with the Nazis. There are a lot of unclean hands concerning the Nazis. Have you ever heard of the rat line? The way in which a lot of Nazi’s got out of Germany to South America. And who assisted them along the rat line? Catholic priests, that’s who...

Are the Mormons and their history perfect? No. Is Glen Beck always perfect? No. However, lets not shoot one of our own which we (conservatives) seem to be pretty good at. The liberals stand to the bitter end with their leaders even if they are dropping their pants to interns in the oval office. We want to throw our leaders overboard because they fudge a little history or belong to a group (Mormons) that we don’t particularly care for. sheeesssh

[PGalt]

Very interesting history. Thanks for posting.

Collectives in general have a hard time rising up against national/state collectives, under whose umbrella of power they reside.

To break away from the powers that be (TPTB) would get your collective labelled as an internal enemy or terrorist group.

History/education BUMP!

[FourtySeven]

UPDATE: In response to reader comments, let me add that Baptists (Liberty University is a Baptist school) were about the same as the Mormons. Baptists lauded Hitler in the 1930s because Hitler didn’t drink or smoke and because the Nazis campaigned for family values. Beck’s grandstanding about resistance to fascism is pathetic when one considers the historical record of his religion and the religion of his audience.

For "the rest of the story".

[Utah Binger]

[aimhigh]

The Gestapo outlawed the following churches in 1939:
1. Jehovah’s Witnesses
2. Anabaptists
3. Seventh Day Adventists
4. Gnosis (Gnostics)
5. Pentacostals
6. Open Brethren
7. Bahia

The longer list includes many unknown churches.
Source: THE NAZI PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCHES, by J.S. Conway

[svcw]

There is NOTHING Beck says that is not couched in mormonISM.
lds cooperated with the nazis to save their own skin.