Dietrich participated in the July 20, 1944, coup to assassinate Hitler in hopes to overthrow the Nazi regime. He was subsequently detained in multiple concentration camps and was executed for his “crimes” in 1945, mere weeks before liberation.
Bonhoeffer is the originator of the oft-quoted, but never-more-relevant-than-now phrase, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
Bonhoeffer became involved in the Confessing Church, which was a movement that fought against the Nazification of the German Evangelical Church. Bonhoeffer was recruited as a teacher at the illegal Confessing Church Seminary, which had been closed by the Gestapo in 1937. Dietrich spent years traveling across the country, visiting pastors of secret house parishes and underground churches.
Some of Bonhoeffer’s actions were:
• Evading the draft
• Acting as an informant
• Participating in a coup to overthrow the regime
• Participating in a coup to assassinate Adolph Hitler
• Breaking several German “laws& ...
