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[Transcript: The churches’ role in World War 2]
[Two women in floral dresses approach a door]
Presenter: Jehovah’s Witnesses were proclaiming that the solution to the world’s problems rests with God’s government.
[Wearing light pink gloves one of them knocks]
On the other hand, the churches repeatedly voiced support for human governments.
[Footage of Popes in ceremonies]
Jehovah’s Witnesses felt a responsibility to make people aware of the position being taken by their religious leaders.
[Witnesses march with signs]
In 1938, more than 10,000 people jammed into London’s Royal Albert Hall to hear a pointed lecture by Joseph Rutherford, while millions more heard this stinging message by radio. Always outspoken, Rutherford invited his listeners to ‘Face the Facts.’
[A re-enactment]
Brother Rutherford: The dictator of the totalitarian rule of Germany has entered into an alliance with the pope. The indisputable facts are that the Roman Catholic hierarchy has stooped wholly to political methods to gain control of the world.
Presenter: Rutherford pointed to the church’s role in the rise of Adolph Hitler, its alliances with Fascist regimes, and its push in many nations to make Catholicism the state religion.
[Photos of catholic leaders with Hitler and General Franco. Black and white war footage]
When World War II erupted in 1939, nearly every organized religion sent its members into the battle.
[Photos of priests blessing soldiers]
French and American Catholics killed German and Italian Catholics; British and American Protestants killed German Protestants.
Jehovah’s Witnesses wanted to make it clear that they were no part of this controversy.
The Watchtower of November 1, 1939, reasoned, “How could a person who is devoted to God’s Kingdom “favor one side or the other in a conflict between factions of the world?”
[Text: John 17:16 “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world’]
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