1906-1945
In 1939, just before the outbreak of war, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was pressed to stay on in the United States, where he was lecturing. He refused, saying ' I must live through this difficult period of our national history with the Christian people of Germany.' Had he stayed, America might have gained a theologian; but the world would have lost a Christian martyr. On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the death of Bonhoeffer - he was hanged for his opposition to the Nazi regime - Malcolm Muggeridge tells the story of this Lutheran pastor whose prison letters have been read all over the world.
A TIME-LIFEproduction