Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. 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. 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. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for 1½ years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on a retreat weekend with confirmands of Zion's Church congregation (1932)
Memorial of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in front of St. Peter's Church, Hamburg
Bonhoeffer's study
The Confessing Church was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.
Synodal elections 1933: German Christians and Confessing Church campaigners in Berlin
Meeting house of the Evangelical Dahlem Congregation, Berlin
Plaque commemorating the second Reich Synod of Confession on the outside wall of the meeting house