While Adolf Hitler\'s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah\'s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered.
How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church\'s history--for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson\'s Moroni an.
While Adolf Hitler\'s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah\'s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered