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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)

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Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-074-16 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)

  • Jul 20

    Bonhoeffer descendant attempts to remove AfD wreath at Berlin commemoration of 1944 Hitler plot

    Tobias Korenke, great-nephew of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, tried to remove a wreath laid by the far-right AfD party at the Bendlerblock memorial. Security intervened, damaging the wreath, and the July 20 Foundation later said it understood the outrage of resistance descendants.

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