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Joseph, Michael, and David Hofer and Jacob Wipf (Hutterite Martyrs of 1918)

December 22nd, 2013

Of the many accounts of war resistance during the First World War, there are few more harrowing than the story of the four Hutterites who were imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The Hutterites are descendants of a large group of Austrian peasants who broke away from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century, living  Keep Reading…

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