About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Adam von Trott zu Solz, Adolf Reichwein, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Alfred Delp, Anton Saefkow, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Busso Thoma, Carl-Heinrich von Stulpnagel, Carl Szokoll, Carl Wentzel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Finckh, Eduard Brucklmeier, Eduard Wagner, Elisabeth von Thadden, Ernst Schneppenhorst, Erwin von Witzleben, Eugen Bolz, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Friedrich von Rabenau, Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, Fritz Thiele, Georg Thomas, Georg von Boeselager, Gereon Goldmann, Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schonhausen, Gunther Smend, Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, Hans-Jurgen von Blumenthal, Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, Hans Bernd Gisevius, Hasso von Boehmer, Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Helmuth Stieff, Henning von Tresckow, Hermann Josef Wehrle, Jakob Kaiser, Joachim Sadrozinski, Joachim von Willisen, Josef Wirmer, Karl Ernst Rahtgens, Karl Freiherr von Thungen, Karl Sack, Klaus Bonhoeffer, List of members of the 20 July plot, Ludwig Beck, Ludwig Schwamb, Nikolaus von Uxkull-Gyllenband, Otto Armster, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Philipp von Boeselager, Robert Bernardis, Rudiger Schleicher, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Theodor Strunck, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Walter Cramer, Werner Schrader. Excerpt: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: 4 February 1906 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi, and founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world, in which he called for a "religionless Christianity," have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of Discipleship a modern classic. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23 days before the German surrender. Bonhoeffer was born in 1906, shortly before his twin sister Sabine. He was the sixth of eight children of a prominent family in Breslau (Wroc aw). His father Karl Bonhoeffer was a distinguished neurologist. In 1912 he moved the family to Berlin to become professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Berlin and director of the psychiatric clinic at Charite Hospital. His mother, Paula von Hase, was a daughter of Klara von Hase, a countess by marriage who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt, and a granddaughter of Karl von Hase, the distinguished church historian and preacher to the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Paula was a school teacher and home-schooled the children, including Christian instruction, until each was 6 or 7. Nonetheless, the Bonhoeffer family seldom attended church services. Bonhoeffer's second oldest brother Walter was killed in action in World War I in April 1918. His sister Christel married Hans von Dohnanyi, a jurist who later became one of the conspirators against Hitler. His sister Sabine married Gerhard Leibholz, a notable jurist of Jewish descent
