When many tormented Anabaptists from the heavily persecuted fledgling movement fled to Germany and Austria, they found their prospects no greater there. In 1529 the imperial Diet of Speyer proclaimed Anabaptism a heresy and every court in Christendom was obliged to condemn the heretics to death. During the Reformation years between four and five thousand Anabaptists were executed by fire, water and sword.
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