Joseph Franklin Rutherford on Adolf Hitler

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Facing escalating Nazi persecution in 1934, Watch Tower Society president J.F. Rutherford boldly warned Hitler that resisting Jehovah's Witnesses meant resisting God himself.
You [Hitler] may successfully resist any and all men, but you cannot successfully resist Jehovah God. ... In the name of Jehovah God and His anointed King, Christ Jesus, I demand that you give order to all officials and servants of your government that Jehovah's witnesses in Germany be permitted to peaceably assemble and without hindrance worship God.
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Amidst rising global tensions, J.F. Rutherford's 1938 address "Fascism or Freedom" fiercely condemned Hitler as a devil-influenced madman persecuting Jews for their religious history.
In Germany the common people are peace-loving, ... The Devil has put his representative Hitler in control, a man who is of unsound mind, cruel, malicious and ruthless . . . He cruelly persecutes the Jews because they were once Jehovah's covenant people and bore the name of Jehovah, and because Christ Jesus was a Jew.
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