Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenburg prison on April 9, 1945, eleven days before it was liberated by US forces. His last words were; "This is the end - for me the beginning of life."
He was a Lutheran pastor and a hero :)
He stood up for what he believed in, even though it cost him his life.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on 4...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on February 4, 1906 and died on April 9, 1945. Dietrich Bonhoeffer would have been 39 years old at the time of death or 106 years old today.
In deciding whether Dietrich Bonhoeffer was good, consider the following. Bonhoeffer was a German theologian who was imprisoned in 1943 and indeed put to death by the Nazis ( by Himmler's order) in...