Q: Did Germany's Most Well-Known Theologian Conspire To Assassinate Hitler?
Published December 22, 2006
A: The most prominent theologian in Hitler’s Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, openly and courageously opposed Nazism and condemned the church for “staying silent when it should have cried out.” Although a pacifist, Bonhoeffer participated in a lengthy struggle to overthrow the Nazis that culminated in a failed assassination attempt on Hitler.
Already imprisoned for helping Jews escape to Switzerland, Bonhoeffer’s connection to the group ultimately resulted in his execution on April 9, 1945. His work, however, has endured. In fact, his brilliant Letters and Papers from Prison remains in circulation, and is required reading for contemporary divinity school students. Among the first thinkers to consider the role of Christianity in an increasingly secular world, Bonhoeffer penned his letters at a time of great personal and worldwide suffering.
- Q: Did Germany's Most Well-Known Theologian Conspire To Assassinate Hitler?
- Published: December 22, 2006
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A fascinating man who embodied a rare human characteristic: INTEGRITY.
Most admirable.
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Excerpt from "Letters and Papers from Prison"
"From the Christian point of view, there is no special problem about Christmas in a prison cell. For many people in this building, it will probably be a more sincere and genuine occasion than in places where nothing but the name is kept.
That misery, suffering, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God from what they mean in the judgment of human, that God will approach where men and women turn away, that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn - these are things that a prisoner can understand better than other people; for him they really are glad tidings, and that faith gives him a part in the communion of saints, a Christian fellowship breaking the bounds of time and space and reducing the months of confinement here to insignificance."
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Hey Sussman,
a man of integrity is hung for aiding Jews during the Holocaust, and you can't refrain from you pathetic, frat-boy humor(less) cries for the attention of strangers?
You're a sad, sick little boy. Seek help.
Yer welcome,
Shark
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First they came for Hitler, and I did not speak up, because I was not Hitler.
Then they came for the banjo players...