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Pacifists in Chains - The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War (Paperback, New)
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Pacifists in Chains - The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War (Paperback, New)
Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
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To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the
military in any way goes against the biblical commandment "thou
shalt not kill" and Jesus' admonition to turn the other cheek when
confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of
four young men - Joseph Hofer, Michael Hofer, David Hofer, and
Jacob Wipf - who followed these beliefs and refused to perform
military service in World War I. The men paid a steep price for
their resistance, imprisoned in Alcatraz and Fort Leavenworth,
where the two youngest died. The Hutterites buried the men as
martyrs, citing mistreatment. Using archival material, letters from
the four men and others imprisoned during the war, and interviews
with their descendants, Duane C. S. Stoltzfus explores the tension
between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people
whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to
their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.
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