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La declaración publicada más reciente de la organización sobre la Declaración es una nota editorial de ¡Despertad! del 8 de septiembre de 1999: “nada de lo dicho en la declaración de 1933 pretendía expresar ni tolerar hostilidad hacia los judíos, y lamentamos que algunas afirmaciones den hoy esa impresión”.

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La declaración publicada más reciente de la organización sobre la Declaración es una nota editorial de ¡Despertad! del 8 de septiembre de 1999: “nada de lo dicho en la declaración de 1933 pretendía expresar ni tolerar hostilidad hacia los judíos, y lamentamos que algunas afirmaciones den hoy esa impresión”. Source: Awake!, 8 de septiembre de 1999Source: Awake!, 8 de julio de 1998

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: El artículo de 1998 en el que se basa la nota dice que la acusación de que los Testigos intentaron congraciarse con el régimen de Hitler o respaldaron su ideología racial es “absolutamente falsa”, que no se exhibieron esvásticas dentro del salón de asambleas y que la asamblea comenzó con la canción “Zion's Glorious Hope” y no con el himno nacional.

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Awake!, “From Our Readers”

8 de septiembre de 1999 · p.30 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“The reader refers to statements in the “Declaration of Facts,” a resolution adopted in 1933 at a convention in Berlin, Germany. (See “Jehovah’s Witnesses—Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril,” in the July 8, 1998, issue of “Awake!”) As the article noted, nothing said in the 1933 declaration was intended to express or condone hostility toward Jews, and we regret it if some statements give that impression today. If anyone back in the 1930’s interpreted the “Declaration of Facts” to mean that Jehovah’s Witnesses were anti-Semitic, this misimpression could easily have been corrected by observing the courageous and compassionate acts of individual Witnesses in behalf of Jews. Moreover, Watch Tower Society publications were among the first to expose and express outrage at the treatment of Jews in Europe.”

The whole of the editorial reply, signed “—ED.”, printed under the standing heading “From Our Readers” and the sub-heading “Not Anti-Semitic”, answering a reader who had written: “Thank you for not hiding things that you regret having said. Although I would like to have read an apology for this statement, your this-was-the-context explanation was adequate.”

Nota de procedencia y verificación for Awake!, From Our Readers

Nota de confianza. Full page opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the reply read and quoted in full; page taken from the pageNum marker. The reply is the magazine’s editorial answer, signed “—ED.”, and is given here complete so that nothing in it is left out.

Notes. A full-text search of the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 found no later publication that revisits the Declaration, so this 1999 note is the organisation's most recent published statement on it.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-de33-g99-from-our-readers

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Awake!, “Jehovah's Witnesses—Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril”

8 de julio de 1998 · pp.13-14 · Awake! correspondent in Germany · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Having mentioned money, the “Declaration” went on to denounce unfair practices of big business. It said: “It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations.” This statement clearly did not refer to the Jewish people in general, and it is regrettable if it has been misunderstood and has given cause for any offense.”

The organisation’s published answer to criticism of the Declaration, signed “BY AWAKE! CORRESPONDENT IN GERMANY”. The article says that Rutherford, “together with the Germany branch office manager, Paul Balzereit, decided to mount a campaign to inform Chancellor Hitler, government officials, and the public that Jehovah’s Witnesses posed no threat to the German people and the State”, and that allegations that the Witnesses tried to curry favour with the regime or endorsed its racial ideology “are absolutely false”.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for Awake!, Jehovah's Witnesses—Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril

Nota de confianza. Full article opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the passage quoted begins on p. 13 and finishes on p. 14, the pages taken from the pageNum markers. The article itself runs pp. 10-14.

Notes. The article carries a footnote saying that space does not allow full documentation but that “a list of complete references is available upon request from the publishers”.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-de33-g98-nazi-peril

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