Eternity at last. War breaks out -- Bonhoeffer seals his destiny -- Leaving home for the first time -- Trip that changed everything -- Men who would change Bonhoeffer's fate -- New idea of what a church could be -- From faith to action -- Grappling with the existence of God -- Decisive experience: visiting the United States -- Heil, Hitler! -- Speaking out against the Führer -- Aryan Paragraph -- Committing treason -- Bonfire of hatred -- Nazi church -- Different kind of resistance -- Night of the Long Knives -- Breakaway church -- Conspiracy begins -- War hits home -- Dark night of the soul -- From clergyman to courier -- Undercover -- Sounding the alarm -- Love in wartime -- Noose grows tighter -- Assassination attempts -- Caught -- Another attempt on hitler's life -- Evidence of treason the end of the war -- Eternity at last.
Summary:
A painstakingly researched account of the heroic efforts of religious leader and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer to expose the atrocities being committed against Jewish citizens to the Allied forces discusses his pacifist activism and role in an assassination plot that targeted Adolf Hitler.
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