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- Title
The Wheathill Bruderhof, 1942-58.
- Authors
Armytage, W. H. G.
- Abstract
The article reports that from the numerous social and religious thinkers voicing a gospel after the First World War, one emerged with a communitarian evangel: Eberhard Arnold. Frustrated people, wishing to make life more meaningful, began to explore the possibility of living a community life. Arnold led them to found a community at Sannerz in Hesse-Nassau in 1920. This moved to the Rhoen-Bruderhof in 1926. There it existed with great success until the rise of the Nazis. A number of its members emigrated to Liechtenstein in 1933, to be followed by others. Finally, the Rhoen-Bruderhof became a special object of Gestapo attention and on April 14, 1937, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the Bruderhof was taken over by forty officials of the State Secret Police of Kassel and dissolved. The buildings became a house for a detachment of the Labor Service, and the three executive members of the community, Hans Meier, Hans Boiler and Karl Keiderling were imprisoned. Ail the others were allowed to leave Germany but each one was only permitted to take a small bundle of clothing.
- Subjects
LIECHTENSTEIN; GERMANY; SOCIAL psychology; HUMAN ecology; COMMUNITY life; LABOR service
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1959, Vol 18, Issue 3, p285
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1959.tb00325.x