Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.īonhoeffer was accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler and was tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office).
He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for one-and-a-half years. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( German: ( listen) 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti- Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
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