August Dickmann
Short biographic page of August Dickmann: Jehovah's Witness Holocaust victim
August Dickmann | |
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![]() August Dickmann in 1936 | |
Born | January 7, 1910 Dinslaken, German Empire |
Died | September 15, 1939 (aged 29) Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Nazi Germany |
Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
August Dickmann (January 7, 1910 - September 15, 1939) was a Jehovah's Witness[1] and Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be killed for rejecting military service during World War II.[2] He was one of many German Jehovah's Witnesses executed because of his religious beliefs during the Nazi regime.[3] Commanding the firing squad that murdered Dickmann was SS officer Rudolf Höss, who was later to become the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
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References
- ^ "He Died for a Principle". wol.jw.org. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ^ Germans execute objector to war: first conscientious resister was member of Jehovah´s Witnesses sect. New York Times; Sep 17, 1939; p. 26
- ^ "Sachsenhausen Memorial to Honor One of Jehovah's Witnesses Executed by Nazis". JW.ORG. JW Newsroom (Germany). Retrieved September 4, 2022.
Further reading
- Detlef Garbe (2008). Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich, The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 415–416. ISBN 9780299207946