Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the sec
Bonhoeffer in 1939
Bonhoeffer on a retreat weekend with confirmands of Zion's Church congregation (1932)
Memorial of Bonhoeffer in front of St. Peter's Church, Hamburg
Bonhoeffer's study
Hans Oster
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Hans Paul Oster was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure in the military resistance to Adolf Hitler. As deputy head of the counter‑espionage bureau in the Abwehr, he used his positio
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
…on 9 April 1945. Bonhoeffer was stripped of his clothing and led naked into the execution yard where he was hanged with five others: Canaris; General Hans Oster, Canaris's deputy; General Karl Sack, a military jurist; lawyer Theodor Strünck; and German resistance fighter Ludwig Gehre. Eberhard Bethge, a student…
Oster in 1939
Memorial to members of the resistance, including Oster, executed at Flossenbürg.