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On February 6th, 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany. (Now known as Wroclaw, Poland)
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At Fourteen years old, Dietrich claimed that he was going to be a Theologian. All of his siblings were working toward being scientists and Lawyers, so he was the one that stuck out.
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Dietrich pays a visit to the United States in 1930
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From 1933 to 1945, Adolf Hitler, one of the worst people to ever live, ruled Germany as chancellor with an iron fist.
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World War II begins September 1st, 1939 and ends about 6 years later in 1945.
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Dietrich was in America for about a month this time, and he had decided that he wasn't going to desert Germany.
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Hitler had said his most offensive and disgusting speech yet; that the Jewish people should be annihilated.
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Dietrich asked himself this question, "Would God forgive the murderer of a Tyrant?"
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Dietrich was preaching to a small group of people, when the Gestapo bursted in and broke the meeting.
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The Abwehr, a group of people who want to kill Hitler, hire Dietrich as a double agent to work for Hitler, but be secretly spying on him.
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Hitler decides that he wants to conquer Russia, and he also gave the orders to kill Russian civilians. For about 6 months, Russia and Germany fought, and in the end, Hitler had lost to Russia.
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Japan sneak attacks the United States by bombing a Naval Base in Hawaii, which makes Hitler declare war on the United States.
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A bomb was put on a plane to kill Hitler, it did not go off.
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General Rudolf von Gersdorff had a bomb hidden in his jacket. He was right next to Hitler, prepared for the explosion, but Hitler left the tour early, and General von Gersdorff had to cut the wires so he and no one else would get harmed by the explosion.
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The Gestapo arrests Dietrich after learning of his involvement with the plots to kill Hitler.
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A young colonel named Claus von Stauffenberg becomes the leader of the Abwehr and thinks of a new way to kill Hitler
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Colonel Stauffenberg attempts to blow up Hitler with a bomb. He succeeds destroying the building they were in, but unfortunately, Hitler survived.
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Colonel Stauffenberg gets the firing squad after Hitler finds out that he was the one responsible for the bombing.
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On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was sadly hung in the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.
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Even though Dietrich didn't get to witness it, the War ended about a month after he was executed
