Daily Podcasts Video Research

Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?

JL;DR SUMMARY The new biopic "Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin" has sparked debates over its portrayal of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed the Nazis and reportedly plotted against Hitler. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

HolocaustTheologyChristian NationalismPacifismHistorical AccuracyFilm CriticismJewish RescueDietrich BonhoefferCinematic LicenseNazi Opposition

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"At a Chicago park that served as the official protest venue earlier this year for the Democratic National Convention, it looked like trouble when marchers carrying Israeli flags headed toward the overwhelmingly Gaza-sympathetic crowd."
New York, United States
"As an exchange student at New Yorks Union Theological Seminary, he is introduced by a Black classmate to Harlem and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, with which Bonhoeffer becomes enthralled as a truer manifestation of the Gospel to the masses than his German Lutheran church."
Breslau, Lower Silesia, Poland
"Of little dispute is the fact that Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau in the well-to-do family of a prominent psychiatrist."
Germany
"His return to Germany comes as the Nazis rise to power and, when they seize it, the capitulation of most German church leaders to demands they incorporate Aryan theology in their liturgy and exclude Jewish influences, including the Old Testament."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 36683
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2024-11-22 05:30:44 UTC
Curated 2024-11-22 08:30:45 UTC