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Key Documents about Tvind

Here we bring together in one place some of the key documents on Tvind and its associated organisations. Ex-members, researchers, NGOs, universities, anti-cult groups, official bodies and concerned individuals have for more than 20 years issued books, reports and articles on Tvind - accounts which all add up to....a very odd business. Read and enjoy.

Steen Thomsen's Report to the Danish Government (1998)

In English and Danish. Steen Thomsen, a teacher, joined the Tvind Teachers Group after studying with Amdi Petersen in Denmark in the 1970s. For 26 years he worked unquestioningly for the TG, following every instruction - including an order to burn family photograph albums and cut himself off from relatives. He turned over most of his income and family property to Tvind. He eventually became headmaster of a Tvind school in the UK, Winestead Hall, but after official investigations, the school was suddenly closed in 1998. (It later reopened as CICD) Thomsen resigned, returned to Denmark. and wrote a report to the Danish government 'Concerning Tvind', that accuses Amdi Petersen of running a cult.

Tvind - an MA Thesis (1994)

Norwegian journalist Leiv Gunnar Lie spent six months researching Tvind at City University, London. This is an authoritative but really scary account of starry-eyed teenagers hitch-hiking through the bush, strange financial dealings, a shipwreck, and dogma-driven adults. A good introduction. (English).

Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger. ("Psycho-cults - how the soul-catchers work") by Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck. (Fischer-TB.-Vlg. Ffm. 1999. ISBN 3596142407) (In German)

Berlin journalists Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck investigate 'psycho-cults', with a chapter about Tvind worldwide. They concluded Tvind was a cult.

The opening section on a visit to Tropical Produce Ltd, Tvind's plantation in Belize, has been translated into English here. read.

Statement by Professor Alan Somerset A statement by Professor Alan Somerset, University of Western Ontario, drafted for wide circulation within the academic community in Canada, the USA and Britain and also sent to the Canadian Association of University Teachers

Complaint to German Youth Service. 'Hellen Adler' <hellenadler@web.de> has posted a complaint about Tvind schools on a German web site, and the complaint has been widely circulated among the German youth service. Read it here in English.

Mind Control (Danish) by Frank Bornakke, a former Tvind member, published in Denmark and on the Internet at the Movement Against Tvind's home page.

Humana People to People Movement : tentative de mise-à-(la lumière du)-jour. Privately-circulated report by a well-informed international development NGO official , who drew up this memo on what was known for certain about Tvind / DAPP / Humana in 1998. He concludes that Tvind is 'a non-religious sect' with a well-integrated 'world empire'..... (French)

Movement Against Tvind, Norway. A leaflet issued by the Scandinavian "organisations of Tvind apostates" - using information supplied by people who have left the organisation.

A report by the EC (1986) The EC studied DAPP's projects in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It found there was lots of enthusiasm but concluded, among other things, that DAPP was fostering 'dependency' on the part of local people, instead of handing over control of the projects. The EEC and EU have not knowingly funded DAPP projects since.

DAPP and ADPP in Zimbabwe and Angola (Jan 2000) A report by Forum Syd, an agency of the Swedish development agency SIDA, after a visit to DAPP/ADPP projects in southern Africa. Did Forum Syd ask the right questions? Tvind Alert is evaluating this report.

About Tvind A brief but to- the-point summary of Tvind circulating on the Internet and among journalists. This anonymous memo is quite old, probably dating from the early 1980s, but has a ring of authenticity. (English)

Controversial groups in Belgium and Holland "De groep/sekte met als hoofdzetel Denemarken heeft tal van vertakkingen oa. Tvind,..." (Dutch) from the Internet.

Tvind-Humana: controversial reform education and fake companies (Source: Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (Evangelical Centre for World Contemplative Issues).)

The Tvind-Humana business is a non-transparant, worldwide-active company, which should be considered as a commercial cult. It operates under the cover-up of different organisations, firms and foundations which officially carry out prosperity- and development aid. Best known is the chain for second hand clothes Humana, of which the headquarters are located in Zimbabwe and which has a big number of branches in Europe.