Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, “Germany”
“Let us remind the government and the people of Germany that it was the League of Nations compact that laid upon the shoulders of the German people the great unjust and unbearable burdens. That League of Nations compact was not brought forth by the friends of Germany.”
The second and third sentences of the first paragraph printed under the subheading “League of Nations”. The passage goes on to say that “It was the Federation of Churches in America that issued a manifesto” calling the League “the political expression of God’s kingdom on earth” (pp. 138-139).
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Provenance and verification note for Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, Germany
Confidence note. Read on the page image of p. 138 (leaf 134) on 19 September 2026, whose own running head reads “138 Year Book”, and confirmed word for word.
Scan provenance. Scan of the 1934 Year Book of Jehovah’s Witnesses held by the Internet Archive as item “1934-JwYearbook”. The item was uploaded to the Internet Archive in January 2012 by a private account; its “creator” field reads “watchtower”, but the upload is not by the publisher and the Internet Archive is not the publisher. The scanned title page names the corporate publishers as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Peoples Pulpit Association and International Bible Students Association, Brooklyn, New York, and carries the notice “Copyright 1933”. The volume is the Year Book for 1934: it carries the branch reports for the 1933 service year, and it is dated here by its edition year, the form in which the organisation’s own publications cite it (“1934 Yearbook, pp. 127-146”, The Watchtower, 1 August 1955, footnote h).
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-de33-yb34-league-of-nations