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May God bless them and preserve their memory.
The German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis seventy years ago last Thursday, in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. He was just thirty-nine years old.
KZ-Flossenbürg was liberated by the United States Army two weeks later, on 23 April 1945.
Pastor Bonhoeffer’s writings continue to resonate around the Christian world. (He was even quoted in General Conference a week ago.) Here’s one representative quotation:
“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
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