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![]() ![]() He could have been released if his trial had taken place early.Īfter the failure of the attack on 20th July 1944 against Hitler, secret documents are discovered in the counter-intelligence archives of Canaris opposing the regime, with the names of participants, including Canaris and Bonhoeffer. ![]() Officially Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a counter-intelligence agent and he travelled to Switzerland and Sweden to inform the Allies about the existing opposition against Hitler, but without success.Īrrested in April 1943 under the pretext of wanting to escape the armed service through his travelling, Bonhoeffer was imprisoned in Berlin Tegel until October 1944. In 1938, he secretly joined the resistance network of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who then was head of the departement of counter-intelligence of the German army. Upon the seizure of power by Hitler, he took a stand against this political regime, because of the exclusion orders prohibiting Jews any job in the administration. This Church denies any link between Christianity and Nazism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor, resistant to Nazismĭietrich Bonhoeffer (4th February 1906-9th April 1945) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor of the Confessing Church. ![]()
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