Dietrich Bonhoeffer was sent as a missionary to a Black Church in Brooklyn NY. There he was exposed to a different kind of worship and affection for Jesus than he found in the traditional Churches in Germany.
But he longed to go home even though he understood the spiritual darkness that had swept through his homeland.
Knowing full well of the consequences he headed home and became the spiritual and intellectual conscience of World War II Germany.
Before the war ended, he was sentenced to death in a German prision.
He was hanged by Hitler’s regime 3 weeks before Hitler shot himself. Hitler was trying to avenge himself in a final burst of bloodletting.