Dietrich Bonhoeffer Speaks to Woke Society Today
May 25, 2022 By Jon Henschen, American Thinker Prior to World War II, many Christian congregations and clergy in Germany jumped on the Hitler bandwagon. One exception to this trend was Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Witnessing Kristallnacht, the wholesale 1938 Nazi attack on Germany's Jewish community, Bonhoeffer resisted collaboration with the Nazi regime and proceeded to speak publicly against Hitler's euthanasia program and the genocidal persecution of Jews. By 1940, Bonhoeffer joined the resistance, and in 1943, he was arrested for his efforts to rescue Jews, although the charges against him were eventually expanded to his being involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler. Bonhoeffer spent one and a half years incarcerated at Tegel Prison until he was transferred first to a Gestapo facility and then to Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was executed by hanging on April...