JJ2014:
Please be assured that I researched the topic thuroughly before posting it or even including it. The information I have is from a series of groups, including the Jewish Holocaust Site and the translation of the letters and papers belonging to the Commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hoss. I did indeed speak to a Jehovah's Witness member for my research, as well, but her information did not take precedence over the information from my other sources. Thus, having my information from both the 'Jewish' side and the 'Nazi' side, among others, I feel confident that my research was all-encompassing. If you wish to cite where your information/ opinions originate, I would be happy to further investigate this.
I feel personally that even if there were only a half-dozen victims in a specific group, to not report those victims would be an injustice. Any victim is a victim, and to ignore one group due to later misconceptions, misreporting, or lack of numbers (or even name changes), is ignoring part of history. In this case, the Jehovah Witnesses are listed as victims of religious/ political persecution. While their numbers and tortures may not have been as great or as obvious as those of the Jewish people, they did indeed suffer and were imprisoned. Thus, they are included in this report. I agree that the majority of known victims were indeed those of Jewish faith; however, they were not the only victims nor the 'most important' victims. To place one group above another or to place more value on one group above another is, in my opinion, what the Nazi party did during the Holocaust.
The very idea of this blog is to inform people that there were other victims, even if of lesser numbers or perhaps lesser degrees of torture and slaying. While the Jewish people suffered a great injustice, they were not the only vicims as many people surprisingly seem to believe. To not report on any of the victims is an injustice in and of itself.
Thank you for your input.
