Arnold is read rather than revered — Innerland, which he wrote and rewrote from 1914 until his death, circulated in Nazi Germany partly disguised as devotional literature, and Plough keeps his work in print. He died on 22 November 1935 at fifty-two, after complications from surgery on a leg he had broken years earlier. Emmy Arnold, his wife, outlived him by forty-five years and her memoir A Joyful Pilgrimage is the primary account of the early years; her sister Else von Hollander was central to the community and died of tuberculosis in 1932. Leadership after Eberhard passed largely to his sons and their descendants, and the concentration of authority in the Arnold family is a recurring theme in both the movement's own accounts and its critics.