The Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted because they refused to fight for the Nazis. They also refused to make the sign that represented hailing Hitler, as they believed they should worship no one but God. They fought for what they believed in.
The Nazis thought of the Jews as a race that they needed to get rid of. They were not given a chance to convert and the average life span of a Jew in a concentration camp was 3 months. However, the Jehovah's Witnesses were thought of as individual people who got in the way of the Nazi regime as they refused to fight on Germany’s side. When they got to the concentration camp every Jehovah's Witness was given a piece of paper to sign saying that they would give up their faith and fight for the Nazis. However thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses turned down this opportunity putting their faith in God first. The average life span of a Jehovah's Witness in a concentration camp was 10 years. This is a huge difference from the way that Jews were treated.
Children of Jehovah's Witnesses were taken away from their parents and put in Nazi schools whereas Jewish children were taken away from their parents to concentration camps where they suffered inhumane treatment. In these camps Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses alike both had to wear the same uniform. However where the Jews had to wear a Star of David, the Witnesses had to wear a purple triangle.
The goal of the Nazis was to destroy the faith of the Jehovah's Witnesses not to destroy the people. However, the Nazis wanted to destroy the faith and the people of the Jewish religion.
The main similarity between the Jewish race and the Jehovah's Witnesses is that the Nazis hated them both. Both races were treated with injustice and prejudice. However the Nazis were determined to get rid of the Jewish race forever whereas they offered the chance to thousands of Jehovah's witnesses to fight for their country. Both races although both persecuted were treated in different ways.
Millions and millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust compared to 2000 Jehovah's Witnesses. However they were a strong group of people who could have gone through the war unaffected but they stood firm and fought for what they believed in.
