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.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_in_Nazi_Germany
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
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. NotesUsed for Nazi Germany's persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1933 to 1945.
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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..."
This source names Jehovah's Witnesses directly: "article on the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, community-edited."
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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