Movie presentation on 08. May 2023 at 19:00 hr in the JMC
In cooperation with the Protestant Military Chaplaincy Niederstetten
The Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) is considered one of the most important representatives of Christian resistance under National Socialism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (played by Ulrich Tukur) views the apparent genuflection of the Christian church before the Nazi regime with great concern. After a meeting with supporters of the Confessing Church is blown up by the Gestapo, he is no longer allowed to preach or publish. He learns of the November pogroms, which confirm his worst fears, in the USA. Staying in America in safety, however, seems to him a betrayal of the Christian idea, and so he returns to his homeland. His brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi convinces him to work as a courier for the resistance group within the German counterintelligence. The struggle between Christian ideals and practical necessity leads Bonhoeffer to conclude that it is more morally reprehensible to be evil than to do evil. The first failed assassination attempt on Hitler leads to a wave of arrests by the Gestapo, of which Bonhoeffer is also a victim. His only contact with the outside world is his fiancée Maria, who is allowed to visit him in prison. When secret documents of the „Abwehr“ fall into the hands of the Gestapo after the failure of the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, the repression against Bonhoeffer intensifies. Maria makes a last desperate attempt to free her lover. But he refuses to flee. Bonhoeffer is transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. From there he goes on his last way …
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