![]() ![]() ![]() Penton argues that he wishes in no way to taint the memory of these dauntless resistors. As Penton discusses in chapters 2 and 3, many historians, such as Christine King, Detlef Garbe, and Jolene Chu, among others, have praised the steadfast spirit of the German and European Witness communities who boldly defied the National Socialist persecution. His current work on Jehovah's Witnesses during the Third Reich continues and intensifies this investigation into the history of the Witness community, specifically under Hitler and the National Socialists. ![]() Eventually, his inquiry induced him to sever ties to the Witness community and produce Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, a critical history of the faith's establishment and development. As he continued this study, however, he began to discover many inconsistencies between the official history he had been taught and what he was uncovering through his research. In the 1970s, owing to his involvement in his faith, he began to study its history. Penton knows his source material well: possibly because up until twenty-five years ago, he was a practicing Jehovah's Witness. James Penton has produced an engrossing yet polemical account of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society during the Third Reich. In his work, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich, M. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics under Persecution. ![]()
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