Parliamentarians want a memorial for Jehovah’s Witnesses

This is the aim of a joint motion that the traffic light coalition and the opposition CDU/CSU parliamentary group submitted to the Bundestag in the evening. They are advertising a memorial sculpture with information boards...

Amok Act At Jehovah’s Witnesses: Police Are Investigating Officials

After the killing spree in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, the police are now investigating one of their own officials: Disciplinary proceedings were opened against an employee of the weapons authority on Tuesday....

Hamburg Jehovah’s Witnesses in shock after mass shooting

In a brightly lit hall on an industrial estate, rows of empty chairs are arranged in front of a plain wooden lectern. [caption id="attachment_6699" align="aligncenter" width="976"] "We pray together, we cry together," says community representative...

At a glance: Jehovah’s Witness beliefs, history in Germany

A gunman attacked a service held by his former congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses at their worship hall on Thursday night, killing six people and injuring eight before taking his own life in the northern German...

Who are Germany’s Jehovah’s Witnesses?

A fatal shooting at a Jehovah's Witness event in Hamburg has shocked Germany. What does the religious community stand for? A Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Hamburg became a horrific crime scene Thursday night when several people were...

Gunman who shot seven people dead at Jehovah’s Witness centre in Germany named and pictured

he gunman who opened fire inside a Jehovah's witness hall in Germany before taking his own life has been identified - as it emerged an unborn baby was among his victims. According to German outlets,...

Germany: Eight dead in armed attack on Jehovah’s Witnesses church

The death toll from Thursday night's attack on a place of worship of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg, northern Germany , has risen to eight . The perpetrator is among the dead, while some of the...
On Jan. 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism.

Jehovah Witnesses targeted for their Christian faith

Today, the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. [caption id="attachment_6640" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] On Jan. 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date...
Judith Hochegger was persecuted for being a Jehovah’s Witness.

Hours from execution by the Nazis, Judith refused to deny her faith

In June 1942, Judith Hochegger sat in a German jail cell, hours from her execution. Her situation looked hopeless. Her “crime” was following a religion that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler didn’t like – the Jehovah’s...

Jehovah’s Witnesses Sue German Museum for Archive of Nazi-Era Abuses

The archive documents the lives and suffering of the Kusserow family, who were among many from the religious group to be persecuted by the Nazis because of their faith. [caption id="attachment_6019" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Kusserow...

Town in Austria Honors 31 Jehovah’s Witnesses, Victims of Nazi Regime

SELTERS, Germany—On the morning of May 19, 2017, the municipality of Techelsberg, Austria, held a ceremony in remembrance of Jehovah’s Witnesses who were executed or imprisoned in concentration camps by the Nazis. A memorial plaque...

Germany Courts Recognize Conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses as Religious Holidays

In April 2012, seven-year-old Vivienne Falcone brought a note from her parents to the principal’s office, asking that she be excused from school for one day. Her family planned to attend an annual, three-day religious convention...

Monument to Witness Holocaust Survivor Unveiled in Germany

SELTERS, Germany—A monument honoring the late Max Liebster, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses who endured over five years of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, was publicly dedicated on June 21, 2013, in Lautertal-Reichenbach. The mayor and other...

Germany Awards Order of Merit to One of Jehovah’s Witnesses

SELTERS, Germany—Mathilde Hartl, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was presented the Order of Merit on February 22, 2013, by the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer. The Order of Merit is the highest tribute the Federal...