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Books by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who became one of the most prominent Christian resisters to the Nazi regime. He studied at Tübingen and Berlin and completed a second doctorate at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1933 he began publicly opposing Hitler. He ran the Confessing Church's underground seminary at Finkenwalde until it was closed by the Gestapo in 1937. He was arrested in 1943, held in Tegel Prison, and transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was executed on April 9, 1945. His other major works include Ethics and The Cost of Discipleship.