A visit to Bonhoeffer’s house would do us good, I figured. He was a hero lauded for the faith and theology that animated his opposition to Nazism—a Christian good guy in a time of Nazi bad guys.

On April 9th, 1945, just one month before Nazi Germany capitulated, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was hanged by direct order from the top. His crime?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis 80 years ago this week for supporting a plot to kill Hitler. Now his legacy is being drawn into another battle: the ongoing debate over White ...

A statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, Germany, in 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in the Flossenburg concentration camp on April 9, 1945.

BONHOEFFER has been called a martyr, or even a Protestant saint — language with which he himself may not have been comfortable; but he spoke of his desire to become a person of faith. Like the lives ...

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).

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1914, six-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer watches his beloved big brother, Walter, go off to join the German army. It’s the last ...

Bonhoeffer’s posthumous standing, like that of other German anti-Nazis, has grown immensely. Since 1998, his limestone effigy has stood above Westminster Abbey’s west door as one of ten ...

But Bonhoeffer misses the opportunity to breathe credible dramatic life into this sainted figure. The Conversation approached the director and writer of Bonhoeffer, Todd Komarnicki, for comment. He ...

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What to know about the anti-Nazi pastor FILE - A metal plaque with a portrait of German priest Dietrich Bonhoeffer is on display at the St. Matthaeus Church in Berlin, Feb. 4, 2006.

An AP Explainer about the anti-Nazi pastor FILE - A metal plaque with a portrait of German priest Dietrich Bonhoeffer is on display at the St. Matthaeus Church in Berlin, Feb. 4, 2006.