Bonhoeffer
Americannoun
noun
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He likened Jin to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident who left the safety of the U.S. to return to Germany in 1939, only to be arrested and executed a few years later.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
There’s righteousness there that’s hard to ignore, and it’s made Bonhoeffer, the author of dozens of books before his death, a figure of admiration and a martyr to many.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once warned that “silence in the face of evil is evil is evil itself.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2022
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who was hanged in a Nazi concentration camp.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
And the Reverend Peters was the invigilator and he sat at a desk while I did the exam and he read a book called The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and ate a sandwich.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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