He is Arvid’s cousin Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a rebellious twenty-six-year-old Lutheran pastor in Berlin. Today, he speaks into the microphone with the grave authority of a man twice his age. Historians will come to recognize his speech as one of the first public acts of defiance against Hitler. Midway through the speech, his voice gathers force. It is critical, Dietrich Bonhoeffer says, to distinguish between a “leader” and a “misleader”— Abruptly, his microphone is cut off. Across Germany, all people hear from their radios is a thick band of static.
