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90 minutes
Source: First Run Features
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German theologian who offered one of the first clear voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their hour of need, and eventually joined a plot to kill Hitler. Archival footage is interwoven with interviews with friends, family, and students of Bonheoffer, with historians and theologians, and with the words of Bonhoeffer himself.
Dr. Victoria Barnett speaks about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who took a stand against the Nazis.
Concert pianist Mona Golabek introduces “Piano Concerto in A Minor (Cadenza).” This audio track can be used with activities and discussions found in A Teacher’s Resource to The Children of Willesden Lane on page 34.
Consider the different ways that the German Christian movement and the Confessing Church movement navigated their relationships with the Nazi government.
