Bonhoeffer: Making Difficult Choices (Advanced Program)
Spotlight English: Advanced
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In 1931, Dietrich Bonhoeffer completed his studies to become a church leader in Germany. The Nazi political party was rising to power and Adolf Hitler was taking control of the country. He became part of a group of 2000 church leaders who formed the pastor's emergency league. They opposed the state approved Nazi church. When pressure from the government increased, they became the illegal, confessing church. It believed that Christians should follow God first, not the nation or Hitler.
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