The Jehovah’s Witnesses were joined by small numbers of Reform Adventists and Christadelphians, one of whom, Albert Merz, was executed. But such was the pressure to participate that other ‘peace churches’ like the Quakers and Seventh Day Adventists negotiated non-combat roles for their members within the military, while the German Mennonites turned their back on their Anabaptist tradition and announced in 1936 that their youths were ‘enthusiastically ready’ to do military service.
