The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero

by Patricia McCormick

approach was what killed faith, he said. To be faithful, he wrote, a person had to be concerned less about himself and more about caring for his neighbor. Again, his professors disagreed

am sometimes afraid of that. . . . Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things.”

Hitler’s brand of evil had “thrown all ethical concepts into confusion,”