What is Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-074-16, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.jpg|thumb|Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] '''Dietrich Bonhoeffer''' (4 February 1906 in [[Breslau]] – 9 April 1945 in [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]]) was an important [[Lutheran]] [[pastor]] from [[Germany]] who was killed by the [[Nazi]]s during [[World War II]]. He is known partly for his belief that killing [[Adolf Hitler]] was a moral act. In his early life he believed that all Jews should turn into Christians, but supported them anyway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bonhoeffer.html|title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref> He disagreed with the general anti-semitism and so created a theological college. He wrote a book called ''The Cost of Discipleship'' about following Christianity.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416760/dietrich-bonhoeffers-heroism-awe-inspring-st-karnick|title=The Awe-Inspiring Heroism of Dietrich Bonhoeffer|newspaper=National Review|access-date=2017-04-27|language=en}}</ref> Two days after Hitler became Chancellor, Bonhoeffer made a radio speech against him. Later, with [[Martin Niemöller]] and others, he started the anti-Nazi Confessing Church. Eventually he became part of the attempt by [[Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]] to assassinate Hitler, but was arrested and executed, three weeks before Hitler killed himself. He was hanged days before the liberation of the POW camp where he was imprisoned. ==References== {{reflist}} {{biography-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonhoeffer, Dietrich}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1945 deaths]] [[Category:Executed German people]] [[Category:German Lutheran pastors]] [[Category:German people of World War II]] [[Category:German theologians]] [[Category:People executed by hanging]] [[Category:People from former German territories]] [[Category:People from Wrocław]] [[Category:Holocaust victims]]