Jehovah's Witness Analysis

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How many Jehovah’s were killed during the holocaust? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says 1,650. Purpose: The author of this article wrote it to inform readers of what European Jehovah’s Witnesses experienced during the Holocaust. The author's intended audience is people seeking information about the Holocaust. The authors point of view is pro Jehovah's Witness. This is demonstrated by the fact that he never gives any arguments in the Nazi side. Of course this makes sense since the Nazis were bigots. Through a rebelling of the persecution endured by the Jehovah's witnesses; the author brings the reader to the conclusion that they were unfairly treated horribly by the Nazis. The type of article does shape the information because …show more content…

The author is neither a witness or participant. The publication is very reliable because it came from a reputable source. The article was updated less than a month ago, so it is very current. How current the article is is not terribly important because the Holocaust happened over 70 years ago. The article covers the factual side of the Jehovah's Witnesses persecution by the Nazis and leaves any opinions out. Logic: The author includes points that had a significant effect on Jehovah's witnesses in Nazi occupied Europe during the holocaust. The author also includes statistics about how many Jehovah's witnesses were imprisoned or died in concentration camps. The author includes the number of Jehovah's witnesses that were killed during the Holocaust, but omits stating the fact that this number is much lower than the total dead for many other groups persecuted by the Nazis. The information is organized in chronological order of which the events took place, with most of the statistics at the …show more content…

Use of phrases like intense persecution and aggressive steps make it clear the author thinks the Jehovah's witnesses were treated unfairly. It is difficult to call this a bias because you will be hard pressed to find an article from a reputable site where the author openly admits to being a Nazi sympathizer. The only known affiliation of the author is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The author may have had more Nazi sympathizing opinions that were not stated because of historical reasons causing a large hate of the Nazis, but this is especially unlikely for someone working at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. A point of view not discussed in detail is that the Nazis did nothing wrong by persecuting Jehovah's witnesses. The author likely did not include this viewpoint because it is not their own and is not the opinion of majority of the article's readers. The author uses the term Regime to describe the Nazi government. Regime has a much more negative connotation and makes the Nazis seem more cruel and authoritarian. The conclusion and overall statement that the treatment endured by Holocaust victims was undeserved and inhumane is very similar to any other literature I have read regarding the

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