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He’s good at spouting the almost endless supply of inspirational quotes by Bonhoeffer but they play more like a reading of his work than a human delivery of the lines. The lack of appeal for the ...
“Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew what their summons meant. Berlin had been reduced to rubbl ...
On the morning of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken from his cell in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria by an SS officer (the SS was the elite guard of the Nazi regime).The ...
What is a famous Bonhoeffer misquotation? “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. … Not to speak is to speak.” According to researcher Warren Throckmorton, this is a popular quote and ...
ON 9 APRIL 1945, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in Flossenburg. He is remembered by the Church of England on that day as a martyr, and that status is confirmed by ...