Planning for Courage

Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s father, recalled that in May 1933–shortly after Hitler came to power–the Nazi Minister for Cultural Affairs spoke at Berlin University, pressuring the university to dismiss immediately all Jewish doctors.  Even the Dean tried to persuade the faculty to join the Nazi Party.  Dr. Bonhoeffer later regretted that neither he nor his colleagues “had felt sufficient courage …