Wolfgang Kusserow

Wolfgang Kusserow (1 March 1922 – 28 March 1942) was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison for conscientiously objecting induction into the German Army because of his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness.

One of his older brothers, Wilhelm Kusserow, had similarly been executed on 27 April 1940 for refusing conscription on grounds of his faith.Witnesses Launch New Legal Case in Germany Over Annemarie Kusserow’s Archive. Newly Uncovered Evidence Proves Annemarie’s Archive Belongs to Jehovah’s Witnesses

Family Kusserow was one of eleven children born to Franz Karl Paul Kusserow and Hilda Kusserow in Bochum, Germany, a family of Jehovah's Witnesses that were persecuted for their religion during the Nazi regime."Purple Triangles: The True Story of a German Family" Directed by Martin Smith, Peter Williams TV International Ltd., 1991. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Film, Accession Number: 1993.178.1, RG Number: RG-60.2715, Film ID: 414. A documentary about the fate of the Kusserow family in Germany during WWII. They are Jehovah's Witnesses.

Annemarie Kusserow, one of Wilhelm and Wolfgang's sisters, preserved a 1000-piece archive documenting the persecution of the family by the Nazi regime. In defiance of her will, the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, continues to hold the archive. She had left the archive to the Jehovah's Witnesses in her will.Jehovah’s Witnesses Launch New Legal Case in Germany Over Annemarie Kusserow’s Archive. Newly Uncovered Evidence Proves Annemarie’s Archive Belongs to Jehovah’s Witnesses

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