In which Silesian city was Dietrich Bonhoeffer born in 1906?
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Breslau
He was the sixth of eight children; in 1912 the family moved to Berlin, where his father Karl Bonhoeffer taught psychiatry.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer from the 1930s.
Which church movement opposing Nazi control did Bonhoeffer join?
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the Confessing Church
It resisted the pro-Nazi “German Christians”, who wanted to exclude Jews from the church.
💡 Did you know? Bonhoeffer went further than many fellow members: he demanded that the church also stand up for persecuted Jews who were not baptised.
In which place near Stettin did Bonhoeffer run an illegal seminary for pastors from 1935?
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Finkenwalde
The Gestapo closed the seminary in 1937; Bonhoeffer then continued the training in secret.
From which country did Bonhoeffer deliberately return to Germany in summer 1939?
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the USA
Friends had found him a safe post in New York; after a few weeks he travelled back.
For which military intelligence service did Bonhoeffer work from 1940 as cover for the resistance?
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the Abwehr
Under Admiral Canaris and Hans Oster the Abwehr was a centre of the conspiracy; Bonhoeffer's brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi worked there.
In which Berlin prison was Bonhoeffer held from April 1943?
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Tegel
A guard smuggled his letters out: above all to his friend Eberhard Bethge.
Under which English title was the correspondence Bonhoeffer wrote in his cell published?
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Letters and Papers from Prison
Eberhard Bethge published them in 1951; the book is one of the most widely read theological works of the 20th century.
Which poem did Bonhoeffer write in Gestapo custody at New Year 1944/45?
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By Gracious Powers
He sent it to his fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer and his mother; set to music, it is still sung in church services today.
In which concentration camp was Bonhoeffer executed on 9 April 1945?
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Flossenbürg
Admiral Canaris and Hans Oster died with him. Two weeks later US troops liberated the camp.
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