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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 – 1945 · Germany
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
A German pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer returned to Nazi Germany from the safety of America to stand with his church. He joined a plot against Hitler, was imprisoned, and was executed by hanging weeks before the war's end, at age 39.
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