IN a letter in last week's Journal Chris Hall mentions the Jehovah's Witnesses: "a group of so-called conscientious objectors" who, he claims, are "keeping very quiet".
He then refers somewhat disdainfully to their refusal to undertake military service in the second world war, while everyone else, he implies, knew where they stood with Adolf Hitler.
Conscientious objection to military service is a principle shared by people from every religious tradition; and one that has been strongly maintained since the 17th century by the Society of Friends.
It is, as I understand it, a duty laid upon all Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany therefore refused military service, along with others from a variety of faiths, and as a result they were all shot or sent to die in concentration camps.
JOHN SPENCER, Hawthorn Cottage, Blockley.
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