John DeGruchy, in his biography of Eberhard Bethge, says, “Had another of Bonhoeffer’s close friends (say, Franz Hildebrandt) become Bonhoeffer’s literary executor and written his biography, in all likelihood we would have a rather different Bonhoeffer today.”65 Indeed, what if Franz Hildebrandt, a Jewish Christian, had written Bonhoeffer’s biography?
