The rise of Nazism led to a German protestant group known as the “German Christians.” These Christians sought to blend Nazism with Christianity. Two days after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Bonhoeffer opposed the Nazi leadership principle on live radio, which was cut off before the end of his remarks. Bonhoeffer was becoming a very well-known voice within the theological world, and surely he would have had many writings for the church to learn from, but in 1933 everything changed. After spending a short stint in America at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Bonhoeffer became a main lecturer at Berlin University in 1931. Bonhoeffer decided to study theology and went on to become a Lutheran pastor. His Father was a professor of Psychiatry and was an open agnostic as well as all his brothers. Unlike Luther, Bonhoeffer was not born into a religious setting. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 at Breslau which at the time was a part of Germany, but is now in Poland.
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