Bonhoeffer Speaks Out Against Hitler

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IN THIS SCENE: At twenty-six years of age, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian delivers one of the first public criticisms of Hitler.

ABOUT THIS FILM: The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the first, and strongest, voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. An acclaimed preacher, pacifist and author, Bonhoeffer came to the famed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on a teaching fellowship. When Bonhoeffer returned to Germany in 1932 he had a new awareness of racial prejudice and challenged Christian churches to stand with the Jews in their moment of need. Bonhoeffer eventually joined the unsuccessful plots to assassinate Hitler and was executed three weeks before the end of the war.

"A touching narrative on the nature of faith." - New York Times

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[vnshiju]

Thought it was his talk. Didn't know it was an advertisement :(

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

@vnshiju

You should read Bonhoeffer's writings then, he didn't exactly speak out on television against A.H. This is a clip from a documentary about Bonhoeffer.

[33388665599]

God bless Bonhoeffer for his bravery. He did what all Christians should have done-resisted the idolatry and evils of the third reich. Let this be a lesson for all of us.

[82jacuna]

Bonhoeffer is an example of what it really means to be Christian.

[GlenRoSSe69]

ya great job - without Hitler, Stalin would have taken ALL of Europe in 1941. Were would your hero Bonhoeffer and church be then? DEAD AS A NIAL...

[bobbyearl60]

Very few of us who are christian truly display the nature of  Jesus Christ.Bonhoeffer knew him intimately and loved and obeyed him without excuse. He didnt consider himself at all special.His Letters from Prison are vividly transparent.A worthy and humbling read.

[sanjosemike]

Even as an atheist, I must believe that Deitrich Bonhoeffer was one of the great heroes of humankind. There was no more courageous a person to have walked the earth.

sanjosemike

[Benjaminb46]

One of the best model christians to ever walk the earth

[abstractthreat]

@witepried I can't imagine where to start with what is wrong in that statement. Do not turn Bonhoeffer into a idol for racist idealology. Bonhoeffer worked with African American seminarians in Harlem and taught at African American Sunday Schools in America. He even brought African American Gospel music back to Germany with him. When offered a higher position in the church under the Nazis, he refused it because of its racist policy of not posting non-Aryans to any positions in the church.

[kiptoy123]

Der Furher had an atrophied testicle.  According to his Nuremburg laws he himself was defective and should have gone up the chimney. Its also long rumored that he had a Jewish great grandfather. Off to the ovens, Adolph!!

[denimdonna]

@afeeder Which white are you referring too?...lol. The Irish are white...and were severely pursecuted...lots of whites were persecuted...but what I love most is how white is just white...not Irish, German, Danish, Scottish, British etc... How biased is that? ...and the fact that he was in the position he was in and gave up everything to stand against tyranny makes him more man than most. (..of any nationality.)

[afeeder]

@witepried

Considering everyone who wasn't white was persecuted and therefore in no position to do what he did, this is a very biased point of view. It's like saying cultivating maize/corn shows what's good about being Native American. Never mind no one else had the chance, because it only grows in the Americas.

[missyalyssi]

He is still an inspiration. God bless Dr Bonhoeffer

[blacsouljah]

@podsednik22  Good point.