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Persecution Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Nazi Germany (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, community-edited. Reliable for the movement's scale in Germany before persecution, almost 20,000 active preachers counted by 1933, and for the persecution that followed, targeting Witnesses for refusing loyalty oaths and military service; the article itself carries inconsistent casualty figures across its sections, an estimated 10,000 sent to camps in one passage against 2,000 in another, and deaths estimated variously at 1,200 and at 2,000 to 5,000, a genuine internal inconsistency this atlas names rather than silently resolves. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Citation
Author
Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_in_Nazi_Germany
Source Type
reference
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1933 to 1945 persecution; casualty figures are carried as the article's own named internal inconsistency rather than a single invented number.
Notes
Used for Nazi Germany's persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1933 to 1945.
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Germany, Countries

This source names Germany directly: "Reliable for the movement's scale in Germany before persecution, almost 20,000 active preachers counted by 1933, and for the persecution that followed, targeting Witnesses for refusing loyalty oaths..."

Source Persecution Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Nazi Germany (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Jehovah's Witnesses directly: "article on the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, community-edited."

Source Persecution Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Nazi Germany (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)

This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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