US EditionWhy some say an anti-Nazi pastor executed by Hitler has become a hero to today’s White Christian nationalists
- On April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian, was executed for plotting against Hitler.
- Bonhoeffer opposed Hitler and the Nazi party, even preaching against idolizing political leaders.
- He supported the July 20, 1944 assassination plot and had been imprisoned for over a year.
- Bonhoeffer wrote from prison that he had "never regretted my decision in the summer of 1939 to return to Germany."
- Now, Bonhoeffer's legacy faces distortion as some transform him into a Christian nationalist warrior, experts warn.
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Why some say an anti-Nazi pastor executed by Hitler has become a hero to today’s White Christian nationalists
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis 80 years ago this week for supporting a plot to kill Hitler. Now his legacy is being drawn into another battle: the ongoing debate over White Christian nationalism.
We are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the execution in the Flossenbürg concentration camp of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was able to harmoniously combine the resistance to Nazism, the mysticism of the follow-up of Jesus of Nazareth and theological reflection. It was on April 9, 1945. I discovered Bonhoeffer at only 23 years of age during my undergraduate studies in theology at the Pontifica University of Comillas throug…
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