1906-1945

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1906-1945

Saints and villains

a novel
1998
A historical novel that traces the life of German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer during the Second World War, recounting his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler, his liaison with a Jewish woman, and his imprisonment.

Bonhoeffer

pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
2011
Traces the life of the Christian theologian whose faith led him to speak out against Nazism and join in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler, discussing the personalities and experiences that shaped him and detailing his role in the religious resistance to Nazism.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2012
A biography of Dietrick Bonhoeffer, a German minister, discussing his childhood and education, his position in the Nazi Germany's military intelligence agency working as double agent, his complicity in multiple assassination attempts, and his eventual imprisonment and execution.

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