Bonhoeffer’s Courage, 90 Years Later

On the 30th of January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Many Germans embraced the rise to power of the Nazi party as an answer to the decadence, failure, and humiliation of the years since the end of the Great War. Among the few who observed the dangerous significance of this ideology stood the young Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.