August Dickmann
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| Born | January 7, 1910 Dinslaken, Germany |
| Died | September 15, 1939 (aged 29) Sachsenhausen concentration camp |
August Dickmann (January 7, 1910 - September 15, 1939) was a Jehovah's Witnesses[1][1] and Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be executed for rejecting military service during World War Two. He was one of many German Jehovah's Witnesses executed because of his religious beliefs during the Nazi Germany.[2][2]Commanding the firing squad that executed Dickmann was Schutzstaffel Rudolf Höss, who later to become the longest-serving Nazi concentration camp commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination camp.[3]
References
- ↑ "He Died for a Principle". wol.jw.org. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- ↑ "Sachsenhausen Memorial to Honor One of Jehovah's Witnesses Executed by Nazis". JW.ORG. JW Newsroom (Germany). Retrieved 4 September 2022.
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