Anniversaries: X years ago today

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80 years ago today, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, was executed in Flossenbürg concentration camp by hanging. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 days ago by crimeschneck to c/anniversaries

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The German source for this anniversary (Deutschlandfunk) also mentions how nowadays he is used by right-wing propaganda in the USA, which even uses him to justify the storming of the Capitol.

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

'Executed' just two weeks before Flossenbürg prisoners were liberated. Even when they knew they had lost, the Nazis were still determined to keep murdering people.

And now today's Nazis exploit his moral courage to justify their moral turpitude? 😡