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La literatura de la Sociedad en Magdeburgo fue destruida en 1933. Su propio Anuario de 1974 recoge que los días 21, 23 y 24 de agosto se sacaron de la fábrica libros, Biblias y cuadros que pesaban 65.189 kilogramos, se cargaron en veinticinco camiones y se quemaron públicamente a las afueras de la ciudad. Por separado, el 7 de septiembre de 1933 el secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos telegrafió al consulado en Berlín que la Sociedad había informado de que “hoy está siendo quemada una parte de los bienes de la Sociedad, incluidos libros, por soldados o policías que actúan como custodios de la fábrica de la Sociedad”, y pidió al consulado que prestara asistencia.

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La literatura de la Sociedad en Magdeburgo fue destruida en 1933. Su propio Anuario de 1974 recoge que los días 21, 23 y 24 de agosto se sacaron de la fábrica libros, Biblias y cuadros que pesaban 65.189 kilogramos, se cargaron en veinticinco camiones y se quemaron públicamente a las afueras de la ciudad. Por separado, el 7 de septiembre de 1933 el secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos telegrafió al consulado en Berlín que la Sociedad había informado de que “hoy está siendo quemada una parte de los bienes de la Sociedad, incluidos libros, por soldados o policías que actúan como custodios de la fábrica de la Sociedad”, y pidió al consulado que prestara asistencia. Source: Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1974Source: Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, 7 de septiembre de 1933

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Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, “Part 1—Germany”

1974 · p.111 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Even though the declaration had been weakened and many of the brothers could not wholeheartedly agree to its adoption, yet the government was enraged and started a wave of persecution against those who had distributed it.”

The following paragraphs record that on 28 June 1933 thirty SA men occupied the Magdeburg premises and hoisted the swastika over the building (pp. 111-112), and that on 21, 23 and 24 August 1933 books, Bibles and pictures weighing 65,189 kilograms were taken from the factory, loaded into twenty-five trucks and publicly burned at the edge of Magdeburg (p. 112).

Nota de procedencia y verificación for Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, Part 1—Germany

Nota de confianza. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording confirmed. The sentence quoted stands on p. 111, between the pageNum markers for pp. 111 and 112; the events described in the context note follow on pp. 111-112.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-de33-yb74-aftermath

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Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, “The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith)”

7 de septiembre de 1933 · p.412 · Cordell Hull · United States Department of State

“Representative of the Watch Tower Bible Tract Society informs Department that an order has been issued by the German authorities requiring the vacating of the Home at Magdeburg owned by the Society and now occupied by Harbeck, an American citizen and the Society’s resident manager, and that a portion of the Society’s property including books is being burned today by soldiers or police acting as custodians of the Society’s factory. You are requested to lend appropriate assistance and report by cable.”

A telegram from the Secretary of State in Washington to the American Consul General in Berlin, passing on what the Society had reported to the Department. It is the Department repeating the Society’s account, not an observation by any American official. Two days later a further instruction to the Ambassador (document 290 in the same volume) states that “the Department is also informed that recently the German authorities burned some of the Society’s publications”.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith)

Nota de confianza. Opened on the United States Department of State Office of the Historian site on 19 September 2026 and read in full. The telegram falls between the printed page breaks for pp. 412 and 413 of the volume.

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Notes. The burning this telegram reports was reported to Washington on 7 September 1933. The organisation’s own 1974 Year Book dates the large burning of literature at Magdeburg to 21, 23 and 24 August 1933. Whether the two accounts describe the same destruction is not established by either document.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-de33-frus-burning-telegram

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