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CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE UNIT SIXTY-THREE: MENNONITE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN WORLD WAR II

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Date Issued:
1982
Summary:
This thesis examines the background and wartime service of Mennonite conscientious objectors who, when drafted during the Second World War, were assigned work as attendants at the State Mental Hospital in Marlboro, New Jersey. The commitment of Mennonites to lives of nonresistance and to work they viewed as Christian service is shown to be totally consistent with their history and ideology. The work of Mennonite conscientious objectors alleviated the suffering of the mentally ill and their dedication inspired the Mennonite Central Committee to support a program designed to improve mental health care in America.
Title: CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE UNIT SIXTY-THREE: MENNONITE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN WORLD WAR II.
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Name(s): CUMMINS, DORRIS LILLIAN CRATE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Sullivan, John, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 130 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis examines the background and wartime service of Mennonite conscientious objectors who, when drafted during the Second World War, were assigned work as attendants at the State Mental Hospital in Marlboro, New Jersey. The commitment of Mennonites to lives of nonresistance and to work they viewed as Christian service is shown to be totally consistent with their history and ideology. The work of Mennonite conscientious objectors alleviated the suffering of the mentally ill and their dedication inspired the Mennonite Central Committee to support a program designed to improve mental health care in America.
Identifier: 14123 (digitool), FADT14123 (IID), fau:10937 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Subject(s): Mennonites--Parties and movements
Conscientious objectors--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Conscientious objectors
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