![]() ![]() In 1933, a group called the German Christians ( Deutsche Christen) began to promote the nazification of German Protestantism through the creation of a pro-Nazi “Reich Church.” The German Christians wanted Protestantism to conform to Nazi ideology, and they pushed for the implementation of the state “Aryan laws” within the churches. Strongly influenced by nationalism and unsettled by the chaos of the Weimar years, many Protestant leaders and church members welcomed the rise of Nazism. With Hitler's ascent to power, Bonhoeffer's church-the German Evangelical Church-entered the most difficult phase in its history. ![]() The German Evangelical Church under National Socialism He also became active in the Protestant ecumenical movement, making international contacts that after 1933 would prove crucial for the Confessing Church and for his time in the German resistance. During that time he attended Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and became deeply interested in the issue of racial injustice. ![]() He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1930–1931. After completing his theological studies, he served a German-speaking congregation in Barcelona, Spain, from 1928–1930. Born in Breslau on February 4, 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the sixth child of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer. ![]()
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