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Les écrits de la Société à Magdebourg ont été détruits en 1933. Son propre Annuaire 1974 rapporte que, les 21, 23 et 24 août, des livres, des bibles et des tableaux pesant 65 189 kilogrammes ont été sortis de l’usine, chargés dans vingt-cinq camions et brûlés publiquement aux abords de la ville. Par ailleurs, le 7 septembre 1933, le secrétaire d’État des États-Unis a télégraphié au consulat de Berlin que la Société avait signalé ceci : “une partie des biens de la Société, y compris des livres, est brûlée aujourd’hui par des soldats ou des policiers agissant comme gardiens de l’usine de la Société”, et a demandé au consulat de prêter assistance.

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Contexte · août 1933 Vérifié

Les écrits de la Société à Magdebourg ont été détruits en 1933. Son propre Annuaire 1974 rapporte que, les 21, 23 et 24 août, des livres, des bibles et des tableaux pesant 65 189 kilogrammes ont été sortis de l’usine, chargés dans vingt-cinq camions et brûlés publiquement aux abords de la ville. Par ailleurs, le 7 septembre 1933, le secrétaire d’État des États-Unis a télégraphié au consulat de Berlin que la Société avait signalé ceci : “une partie des biens de la Société, y compris des livres, est brûlée aujourd’hui par des soldats ou des policiers agissant comme gardiens de l’usine de la Société”, et a demandé au consulat de prêter assistance. Source: Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1974Source: Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, 7 septembre 1933

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, “Part 1—Germany”

1974 · p.111 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Even though the declaration had been weakened and many of the brothers could not wholeheartedly agree to its adoption, yet the government was enraged and started a wave of persecution against those who had distributed it.”

The following paragraphs record that on 28 June 1933 thirty SA men occupied the Magdeburg premises and hoisted the swastika over the building (pp. 111-112), and that on 21, 23 and 24 August 1933 books, Bibles and pictures weighing 65,189 kilograms were taken from the factory, loaded into twenty-five trucks and publicly burned at the edge of Magdeburg (p. 112).

Note de provenance et de vérification for Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses, Part 1—Germany

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording confirmed. The sentence quoted stands on p. 111, between the pageNum markers for pp. 111 and 112; the events described in the context note follow on pp. 111-112.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-de33-yb74-aftermath

Document public officiel Vérifié

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, “The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith)”

7 septembre 1933 · p.412 · Cordell Hull · United States Department of State

“Representative of the Watch Tower Bible Tract Society informs Department that an order has been issued by the German authorities requiring the vacating of the Home at Magdeburg owned by the Society and now occupied by Harbeck, an American citizen and the Society’s resident manager, and that a portion of the Society’s property including books is being burned today by soldiers or police acting as custodians of the Society’s factory. You are requested to lend appropriate assistance and report by cable.”

A telegram from the Secretary of State in Washington to the American Consul General in Berlin, passing on what the Society had reported to the Department. It is the Department repeating the Society’s account, not an observation by any American official. Two days later a further instruction to the Ambassador (document 290 in the same volume) states that “the Department is also informed that recently the German authorities burned some of the Society’s publications”.

Note de provenance et de vérification for Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith)

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on the United States Department of State Office of the Historian site on 19 September 2026 and read in full. The telegram falls between the printed page breaks for pp. 412 and 413 of the volume.

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Notes. The burning this telegram reports was reported to Washington on 7 September 1933. The organisation’s own 1974 Year Book dates the large burning of literature at Magdeburg to 21, 23 and 24 August 1933. Whether the two accounts describe the same destruction is not established by either document.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-de33-frus-burning-telegram

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