As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation,
bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small
number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the
inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as
much for such spiritual classics as "The cost of Discipleship "and
"Life Together," as for his 1945 execution in a concentration camp
for his part in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Readers will discover fresh insights and revelations about his life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and about his radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.
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