In 1948, East Germany held a plebiscite, a direct vote by the people, and as Hacke explains, “the fundamental cause [of the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses] was that they did not participate in the plebiscite. ”
सन्‌ 1948 में, पूर्वी जर्मनी में एक जन - मत हुआ जिसमें पूरे देश के लोगों को सीधे एक सरकार का चुनाव करना था ।