Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics under Persecution.(Book review)

Church History | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics under Persecution. By M. James Penton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xxii + 412 pp. $75.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.

In his work, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich, M. James Penton has produced an engrossing yet polemical account of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society during the Third Reich. Penton knows his source material well: possibly because up until twenty-five years ago, he was a practicing Jehovah's Witness. In the 1970s, owing to his involvement in his faith, he began to study its ...

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