He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich ...

Eighty years ago, April 9, 1945, Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria. Stripped naked, he was hanged then revived, then hanged again. It was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis two weeks before the end of World War II. - Walter Sanders/The LIFE ...