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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

2004Source ID src-de33-penton-bookAccessed 19 September 2026
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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

2004 · M. James Penton · University of Toronto Press

A scholarly study of the subject, listed here from its publisher’s table of contents only. That table of contents gives chapter 1 as “The Watch Tower Society’s Attempted Compromise with Hitler” (pp. 6-28), chapter 3 as “Evaluating the Arguments and the Evidence” (pp. 63-99), appendix C as “Documents Relating to the Watch Tower Society’s Attempt to Compromise with Nazism” (pp. 256-296) and appendix D as “U.S. State Department Documents Relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany in 1933” (pp. 297-311).

Provenance and verification note for Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

Confidence note. This book was not opened for this research and nothing is quoted from it here. The publisher’s platform, Project MUSE, shows the full table of contents but the chapters are closed; Google Books returned a verification challenge; the Internet Archive copy is lending-restricted. The table of contents was read there on 19 September 2026 and again for an independent audit.

Notes. Listed so that readers can see what the critical scholarly literature on this episode consists of, and so that the limits of this page’s own reading are plain. No argument of Penton’s is reproduced here.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-de33-penton-book