Much like in Russia, the crackdown on the Reform Movement in Germany began with the General Conference association's dissolution by the Gestapo in 1936 but it was re-registered in Sacramento, California, United States in 1949 so was more familiar and became better known in America than the TFSDA.
Since the American Civil War, Adventists were known as non-combatants, and had done work in hospitals or to give medical care rather than combat roles.
[6][7][8] After the war, the Seventh-day Adventist Church sent a delegation of four brethren from the General Conference (Arthur Daniells, L. H. Christian, F. M. Wilcox, M. E. Kern) in July 1920, who came to a Ministerial Meeting in Friedensau with the hope of a reconciliation.
Before the 200 pastors and the brethren from the General Conference present at this meeting, its European church leaders G. Dail, L. R. Conradi, H. F. Schuberth, and P. Drinhaus withdrew their statement about military service and apologized for what they had done.
The group focuses its outreach on members of the regular Seventh-day Adventist Church and expects to see an imminent return of religious persecution.