Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives

The wartime bravery and tragic end of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) are recounted in this biographical documentary on his underground resistance activities before and during World War II. Bonhoeffer was financially well-off, cultured, and educated -- a Lutheran theologian who believed so intensely in his ideals that he risked and lost his life opposing the Nazis. He joined the Confessing Church in 1933 because that Church refused to accept Hitler's doctrine of anti-Semitism, and Bonhoeffer spo…