Volume 13, Number 3 · August 21, 1969
A Contradictory Hero
By Magdalen Goffin
The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Mary Bosanquet
Harper and Row, 304 pp., $5.95
'Ferocious power like that of the old Caesars can never again disgrace the leading civilizations of the world,' Frank Newman confidently predicted during the course of his lectures on ancient and modern history. Almost exactly one hundred years later a certain Lutheran pastor called Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken from his Berlin prison to an extermination camp at Flossenbürg. The next day he was stripped naked and hanged.
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