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In Germany, likewise, the rise and establishment of the Administrative Order of the Faith, to whose expansion and consolidation the German believers were distinctively and increasingly contributing, was soon followed by repressive measures, which, though less grievous than the afflictions suffered by the Baha'is of Turkistan and the Caucasus, amounted to the virtual cessation, in the years immediately preceding the present conflict, of all organized Baha'i activity throughout the length and breadth of that land. The public teaching of the Faith, with its unconcealed emphasis on peace and universality, and its repudiation of racialism, was officially forbidden; Baha'i Assemblies and their committees were dissolved; the holding of Baha'i conventions was interdicted; the Archives of the National Spiritual Assembly were seized; the summer school was abolished and the publication of all Baha'i literature was suspended.
(361:3)
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