Meet the Christian Theologian Who Tried to Assassinate Adolf Hitler

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Taylor Berglund

Museum of the Bible

In the 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of Germany’s most famous pastors and theologians—at a time when German clergy were increasingly capitulating and buying into Hitler’s anti-Semitism. Bonhoeffer joined the Confessing Church, a movement resisting Nazism, and eventually joined a plot to assassinate Hitler. The Museum of the Bible briefly presents his story here.

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