![Waltraud Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness, was arrested several times for refusing to make the "Heil Hitler" salute. [LCID: 68374]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/03737ec4-fe52-4c77-b25a-3ec2855253e9.jpg)
Waltraud Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness, was arrested several times for refusing to make the "Heil Hitler" salute. She spent two and a half years in prison. Germany, after 1945.
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