A 1998 Awake! article defended both Rutherford’s “Declaration of Facts” and other little-known details concerning the event at which it was unveiled. For example, most Witnesses are unaware that, according to at least one credible eyewitness account, when German Witnesses arrived for their 1933 convention to hear the declaration being read out they were greeted by the spectacle of swastikas hanging at the convention venue, and even opened their program with a hymn that had a melody identical to the German national anthem (or Deutschlandlied)—giving the event the look and feel of a Nazi party
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