I have observed some people drifting away from the Watchtower who will acknowledge that most Witness beliefs are false.
However, they may still cling to "neutrality" as a means of assuring themselves that "it's still the truth".
The Witness idea of neutrality is naive. As entire nations now mobilize for wars, the idea that you are somehow 'not part of it'
is nonsense. Nazi Germany needed farmers, skilled factory workers, and all sorts of hard working people to keep going,
regardless of whether they actually made or used weapons or not. An incompetent soldier might never approach the value
of one skilled factory worker producing precision ball bearings - for tanks and aircraft.
As to personal sacrifice, many Witnesses gave their lives for what they believed. However, what is almost always forgotten
are the vastly more numerous sacrifices made by men and women who ended the horror of Nazi rule. Why should
a person who died in a concentration camp be looked upon with greater admiration than men who died to liberate those camps
in combat? Frankly, the concept gets insulting, at times - as regards the veterans who thereafter are quietly dismissed as part
of "Satan's world" , while Witnesses - who worked to support Hitler's economy are lionized.
Ever hear about the Four Chaplains? who died trying to save others? Would the Awake ever 'highlight' them?
Has the Society ever praised men like( Orthodox) Father Arkady or (Catholic) Kolbe , who sacrificed for others, under the most horrible
If Hitler had won, the SS planned to use Jehovah's Witnesses as a means to help pacify conquered territories!
Does that sound like 'neutrality' turned against its 'purpose'?
I'm sick and tired of reading about Witnesses who opposed Hitler, Stalin, and others - while the far more practical efforts
of other men and women, suffering for freedom, are not mentioned in the Witness- world view. The intolerant Watchtower view
of things only serves to make them, not "neutrals", but parasites who enjoy freedoms that others bought with blood and pain ,
while feeding off a human society they look upon with contempt.