I suspect Dietrich Bonhoeffer would have hated the movie Bonhoeffer.
Like all great sayings, that one has been attributed to a number of people. The specific line above comes from author James McBride, who I wasn’t surprised to learn was a minister’s kid.
While Bonhoeffer’s theological writings remain foundational for Lutherans today, when I spoke with his family, I was reminded that Bonhoeffer’s and his family’s most ardent hope is not a sectarian one.
Schleicher-Tappeser, whose grandfather was killed by the Nazis along with Bonhoeffer, said his motivation to speak out came when he saw the trailer for thefilm depicting Dietrich as a violent assassin carrying a gun. Speaking from Berlin with typical German detachment, mixed with emotional outrage, Schleicher-Tappeser told me: “It was outrageous. Dietrich with a gun! We were aware of these cultural fights in America. He was being instrumentalized.
“The longer the whole Resistance evolved, the more they had to rely on the military people, and that was a difficult thing. My family were quite distanced from military thinking. But Hitler had killed so many people. Eventually they had to join the military people to stop him, and they decided to use force as a last resort.
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