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Reports from Norway describe an agreement reached between the
Nazi occupation authorities in Norway with the Watchtower Society
whic permitted the WTBS to retain its property holdings in Norway
in exchange for voluntary limitations on their evangelization work.
This old skeleton was uncovered by a staff member at the WT's head-
quarters while researching the history of JWs in that country. His
inclusion of this agreement in the article was removed by his
superiors, and eventually the researcher left the corporation. The
dossier will be updated as new information comes to light, although
the Norwegian government lack archival material from that period, and
the original documents are in the possession of the Norway WT HQ.


Other reports from Norway relate the WT Corporation's double attempt 
to inflate JW numbers - currently using figures of 15000 for claiming
of the religious subsidy from the Norwegian government, whereas 
membership stands in 1994 at 9,100 - and more perniciously using
the numbers of JWs in German concentration camps as bargaining chips
in negotiations with the present government. As a result, the numbers
of these have been inflated way past the figures the WTBS have themselves
printed as authoritative in their literature. 


The statistics in their 1984 version:-

"Most outstanding among Dr. King's findings are figures of deaths and
imprisonment of Jehovahs Witnesses. These indicate that the figures
previously published by the Witnesses were greatly underestimated......What
was these figures? "Some 10.000 were imprisoned, and together they received
sentences totalling 20.000 years."" Watchtower 1984, Oct 1, p8


The accurate statistics in 1974:-

"A total of 6.019 had been arrested, several two, three or even more times,
so that, all together, 8.917 arrests were registered. All together they had
been sentenced to serve 13.924 years and two months in prison, two and the
quarter times as long as the period since Adams creation. A total of 2000
brothers and sisters had been put into concentration camps, where they had
spent 8.078 years and six months, an average of four years. A total of 635
had died in prison, 253 had been sentenced to death and 203 of these had
actually been executed. What a record of integrity!" yb74, p212