Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany
Because this report concerns a Quaker group, I think it important to call attention to some of the basic principles of the "Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)," often misconceived as a welfare organization. We frequently characterize our faith as a "religion without dogma," because without ritual and priests--we practice "silent worship" in the conviction that God can be revealed directly to every human being. In the silence, participants often express vocally what moves them. We believe that, no matter how hidden it may sometimes be, there is in everyone something "of God." This may be more universally expressed as "something good."

For Quakers, from the very outset, religious belief and political action have been inextricably bound together. The story that follows is that of one attempt to realize this conviction even under the conditions of the Nazi regime.
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Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany
Because this report concerns a Quaker group, I think it important to call attention to some of the basic principles of the "Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)," often misconceived as a welfare organization. We frequently characterize our faith as a "religion without dogma," because without ritual and priests--we practice "silent worship" in the conviction that God can be revealed directly to every human being. In the silence, participants often express vocally what moves them. We believe that, no matter how hidden it may sometimes be, there is in everyone something "of God." This may be more universally expressed as "something good."

For Quakers, from the very outset, religious belief and political action have been inextricably bound together. The story that follows is that of one attempt to realize this conviction even under the conditions of the Nazi regime.
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Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany

Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany

Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany

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Because this report concerns a Quaker group, I think it important to call attention to some of the basic principles of the "Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)," often misconceived as a welfare organization. We frequently characterize our faith as a "religion without dogma," because without ritual and priests--we practice "silent worship" in the conviction that God can be revealed directly to every human being. In the silence, participants often express vocally what moves them. We believe that, no matter how hidden it may sometimes be, there is in everyone something "of God." This may be more universally expressed as "something good."

For Quakers, from the very outset, religious belief and political action have been inextricably bound together. The story that follows is that of one attempt to realize this conviction even under the conditions of the Nazi regime.

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BN ID: 2940157160128
Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date: 03/22/2017
Series: Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #265
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 134 KB

About the Author

Anna Sabine Halle, daughter of Olga and Gerhard Halle, cofounders of German Yearly Meeting, 1925, is a native of Berlin and an educator. After 1945, she spent time as a student in Sweden and in the USA (Pendle Hill and elsewhere), served as a representative of Young Friends in Germany and as a German correspondent for Friends Journal, worked for the International Secretariat and for reconciliation in the divided city of Berlin. She has done research and published on the subject of the position and practice of Quakers during the Nazi period. Since 1964, she has been employed by the Free University in Berlin, where she has participated in and conducted seminars on resistance and accommodation, dealing especially with young people. At present, she is under assignment of Pyrmont Yearly Meeting to deal with the question of resistance against national socialism.
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