Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

Rumors of such things circulated throughout the war, but now the reality was confirmed by photographs, newsreel footage, and eyewitness accounts from the soldiers who liberated the camps in April during the last days of the war. The depth of these horrors had not been known or imagined, and it was almost too much for the war-fatigued British public to absorb.

It would even be said that the only good German—if one needed to use the phrase—was a dead German.

Part of the restoration to peacetime thinking was the ability to again see beyond the blacks and whites of the war, to again discern nuance and shades, shadows and colors.

the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition.

She subscribed to the maxim that Germans had their backs broken twice, once at school and once in the military;

He would fill my little pitcher with the raspberries he had toiled to collect, so that I would not have less than he, or share his drink with me.”

faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God. During