bonhoeffer, dietrich

It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time. He had put his papers in order -- and left a few notes specifically for Hitler's men to see. Two SS agents climbed the stairs and told the boyish-looking Bonhoeffer to come with them. He calmly said good-bye to his parents, put his Bible under his arm, and left. Upstairs there was proof, in his own handwriting, that this quiet young minister was part of a conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler. This account includes the discovery that Bonhoeffer was one of the first people to provide evidence to the Allies that Jews were being deported to death camps. It takes readers from his privileged early childhood to the studies and travel that would introduce him to peace activists around the world -- eventually putting this gentle, scholarly pacifist on a deadly course to assassinate one of the most ruthless dictators in history.

Uses text and illustrations to tell the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who spoke out against the Nazi regime.

In his signature art style, Hendrix tells the gripping account of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a minister who joined a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

Traces the life of the German theologian and pacifist, whose faith led him to speak out against the Nazis and participate in an assassination plot that targeted Adolf Hitler.

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"" Bonhoeffer: the cost of freedom is the true story of an unlikely hero -- a theologian and pacifist who finds himself risking everything to battle against the tyranny of Nazi Germany. This Peabody Award winning drama captures the tense moral conflict of a man at odds between loyalty to his country and his faith as a Christian. At what cost will Dietrich Bonhoeffer stand against the Third Reich? How is it possible that this avowed pacifist finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate Hitler."" --Container.

"Bonhoeffer gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully-even to the point of death." provided by publisher.

Examines how pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi actively opposed the tyranny of Hitler's Third Reich.

A biography of the German Protestant pastor whose resistance to the Nazi regime led to his imprisonment and execution.

This magnificently evocative novel based on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will introduce readers to a courageous Christian who joined the underground convinced that it was his duty to work for Hitler's defeat. In this, her first novel, Mary Glazener has captured the warmth, humanity, and intrigue of this young German pastor and theologian who at thirty-nine years of age was executed by the Nazis at Flossenburg concentration camp on April 9, 1945, for his part in the "Officers' Plot." This highly readable work combines the essence of many stories of World War II---namely, the Church's struggle to survive the Third Reich; a family's commitment to save each other, their neighbors, and Germany; an extraordinary friendship between a teacher and his student; a resistance movement, filled with risk, espionage, and repeated set backs; and the many Christians and Germans who risked their lives to save the Jews.