He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich ...
John Philip Koeller's family has an interesting lineage connected to Alsace, France, a region that was at one time part of the German Empire. His great-grandfather took part in the French invasion of ...
In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on indifference. Was that the whole reason? In the dire months since Donald Trump’s ...
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Why some say an anti-Nazi pastor executed by Hitler has become a hero to today’s White Christian nationalists
This debate about Bonhoeffer and violence may seem academic. But the German pastor has already been used to justify political violence in the US. Far-right Christian activists carried out a wave of ...
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