COLONY DISBANDED
GERMANS IN ENGLAND MEMBERS OF BRUDERHOF LONDON, Jnn. 8 The Cotswold Bruderhof, a German religious sect living in a hamlet of 500 acres on the border of "Wiltshire and Gloucestershire- —feared by many people to be a German spy organisation—has been disbanded. Bearded Germans wearing coloured shirts and breeches, who came to England four years ago, have all left the country. Some, with Home Office permission, left to start a new Bruderhof in Paraguay. A Daily Express reporter, who investigated the Bruderhof last summer, found that it had its own publishing house, three printing presses, a modern bakery and laundry, and some fields enclosed with electric wires to "keep cattle from straying." All members submitted to a 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. curfew. In June the police arrested an English woman member. The Bruderhof had 270 members, of whom 108 were Germans and 54 aliens of seven different countries. The leader was Dr. Eberhard Arnold, former general secretary of the German Students' Christian Movement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23863, 14 January 1941, Page 81
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