“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”
Bonhoeffer died at the hands of the Nazi after an assassination attempt of Hitler.
He was very gracious.
There were so many martyrs at the hands of the Nazis. Edith Stein, (St. Benedicta), and St. Maximillian Kolbe who offered himself in place of another when they were taken to starve to death.
He actually sang hymns of praise as the last to die. In fact, they finally injected him with carbolic acid because he wasn’t dying fast enough.
What witnesses! I know what a coward I am!