He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich ...

One summer evening last year, couples therapist Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was watching a TV documentary about German Nazi SS master Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust. After the show ended, ...

FILE - A statue of former German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (made by Fritz Fleer) stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, Feb. 3, 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the ...

John Philip Koeller's family has an interesting lineage connected to Alsace, France, a region that was at one time part of the German Empire. His great-grandfather took part in the French invasion of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis two weeks before the end of World War II. - Walter Sanders/The LIFE ...