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Persecuted Jehovah’s Witness
Amalie Wagner (r.), um 1970 | Privatbesitz Erna Franz
This single resident of Schwabing left the Catholic church in 1933 and became a Jehovah's Witness. Amalie Wagner lost her job because of her beliefs and she was arrested on May 6, 1937. On July 13, 1937, the Munich Special Court sentenced her to four months in prison. She had participated in Bible study groups and also in the protest flyer action in February.
On September 24, 1937, she was deported to the Moringen Concentration Camp; after that to the Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Groß-Rosen Concentration Camps. In the war years, her situation improved temporarily when she was deployed in external work details in households of SS functionaries, among others on the Gut Comthurey (Comthurey Estate) of the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, Oswald Pohl.
After the end of the Nazi regime, Amalie Wagner returned to Munich in 1945 and was active in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses until her death in 1982.
Staatsarchiv München, StAnw 9109.
Wilker, Christoph: „Verfolgung und Standhaftigkeit der Zeugen Jehovas in Schwabing“, in: Macek, Ilse: „ausgegrenzt – entrechtet – deportiert: Schwabing und Schwabinger Schicksale 1933 bis 1945“, München 2008.
