The D. C. Holocaust Museum exhibits the record of Christian martyrs, a courageous faithful people who were put in Nazi camps because they considered the "Heil Hitler" salute idolatry. They wouldn't goose-step in his armies, nor march in any other for that matter.
This people readily die before they'll kill, and came thru WW2 with no blood on their hands. If all "christians" were like them WW2 would have been impossible!!
"Jehovah's Witness refused to bear arms or to undertake war related work. Their refusal, as a body, was recorded only 3 days after the promulgation of the new military laws. They also refused to undertake Nazi labor service or related duties. ... It was, however, ideologically impossible for the Nazis to tolerate them, as it is for communist states to tolerate them today. ... Only against the Witnesses was the government unsuccessful, for although they had killed thousands, the work went on and in May 1945 the Jehovah's witnesses movement was still alive ... their numbers had increased and no compromises had been made." 1
James, compared to the millions of slaughtered Jews, which included many of my wife's aunts and uncles, JWs were a small contingent. You'll find a section on us in the Holocause museum. Many of my friends were imprisoned here and I grew up expecting to go to prison for Christian neutrality.
"When war broke out the Witnesses at Sachsenhausen were invited to volunteer for military service. Each refusal was followed by the shooting of 10 men from their ranks. After 40 victims had been killed the SS desisted." 2
The Soviets stood our boys naked in the Russian winter and hosed them down til they died as human icicles. THANK JEHOVAH GOD WE HAVE NO JEWISH BLOOD, OR ANY OTHER, ON OUR HANDS! Said Jesus: Put your sword into it's sheath, for all those who take the sword shall die by the sword." I believe these words, have lived by them and am willing to die for them as have thousands of my brothers.
The armies of Christendom which have drenched this broad planet with their crusades, wars, inquisitions and pograms, enslaving and exterminating black, yellow and red men and ever despising the Jew down thru 17 centuries to this very minute know nothing of the Jesus of the New Testament, nor were they in any sense Christian. James: No true Christians have afflicted your people, only the false.
With deep regret that Jesus' name should be so dishonored,
Don Martini
1. Christine King, The Nazi State and the New Religions, E. Mellen
Press, New York & Toronto.
2. The Theory and Practice of Hell 33 Eugen Kogon Berkley Books, NYC |
