Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, “Germany”
“A careful examination of our books and literature will disclose the fact that the very high ideals held and promulgated by the present national government are set forth in and endorsed and strongly emphasized in our publications, and show that Jehovah God will see to it that these high ideals in due time will be attained by all persons who love righteousness and who obey the Most High.”
The sentence begins at the foot of p. 137 and finishes at the head of p. 138, where the Declaration adds: “Instead, therefore, of our literature and our work's being a menace to the principles of the present government we are the strongest supporters of such high ideals.”
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Provenance and verification note for Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, Germany
Confidence note. Read on the page images of p. 137 (leaf 133) and p. 138 (leaf 134) on 19 September 2026, whose own running heads read “Year Book 137” and “138 Year Book”, and confirmed word for word. The sentence breaks across the two pages at “in due time will be at-” / “tained”.
Scan provenance. Scan of the 1934 Year Book of Jehovah’s Witnesses held by the Internet Archive as item “1934-JwYearbook”. The item was uploaded to the Internet Archive in January 2012 by a private account; its “creator” field reads “watchtower”, but the upload is not by the publisher and the Internet Archive is not the publisher. The scanned title page names the corporate publishers as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Peoples Pulpit Association and International Bible Students Association, Brooklyn, New York, and carries the notice “Copyright 1933”. The volume is the Year Book for 1934: it carries the branch reports for the 1933 service year, and it is dated here by its edition year, the form in which the organisation’s own publications cite it (“1934 Yearbook, pp. 127-146”, The Watchtower, 1 August 1955, footnote h).
Notes. The phrase “the present national government” is the Declaration's own; the resolution nowhere names the National Socialist party or Adolf Hitler.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-de33-yb34-high-ideals