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1937 21 May 193- |
All Bahá'í activities and institutions were banned in Germany by a special order of the Reichsführer SS and the Gestapo Chief of Staff Heinrich Himmler when he banned the Bahá'í Faith in Germany. He blamed it on the religion's "international and pacifist tendencies." The Nazi government increasingly targeted the Bahá'ís after Himmler's edict, first by tearing down the public memorial to 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Bad Mergntheim and then, in 1939, making mass arrests of the former members of the National Spiritual Assembly. Bahá'ís went to jail, some for very long periods, without charges. In 1942, more mass arrests occurred. Many of the Bahá'ís from Germany and the surrounding countries disappeared in the Nazi concentration camp system.
[BBRSM185; Bahá'í Teachings; German Bahá'í website archives; The German Baha'i Community under National Socialism p19]]
The wave of nationalism, so aggressive and so contagious in its effects, which has swept not only over Europe but over a large part of mankind is, indeed, the very negation of the gospel of peace and of brotherhood proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh. The actual trend in the political world is, indeed, far from being in the direction of the Bahá'í teachings. The world is drawing nearer and nearer to a universal catastrophe which will mark the end of a bankrupt and of a fundamentally defective civilization.[LDG1p55] |
Persecution, Germany; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Bans; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Court cases; World War II; Germany | |
1937 2 May 193- |
The Yerrinbool Bahá'í School (originally known as 'Bolton Place') was officially opened in Australia. [Yerrinbool Bahá'í School 1938 - 1988: An Account of the First Fifty Years by Graham Hassall; Yerrinbool Bahá'í School and the Australian Bahá'í Community by Fazel Naghdy]
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Yerrinbool Bahá'í School; - Bahá'í inspired schools; Yerrinbool, New South Wales; Australia | |
1937 May 193- |
Several prominent Bahá'ís were arrested in Yazd. [BW18:389]
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Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1937 May 193- |
Fred Schopflocher contributed and additional $100,000 (see 16 March, 1929) to the goal of $350,000 to complete the exterior ornamentation of the House of Worship. For his dedication to the construction the Guardian designated him as "Chief Temple Builder". [LoF 388-390, BW12p664] | Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Fred Schopflocher; Funds; Wilmette, IL; USA |
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