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(S+) Great-nephew of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on hymns at "Querdenker" demos: "It hurts me physically"

2/10/2022, 11:59:13 PM


Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who lived in the Nazi resistance, wrote the poem »Of good powers« months before his execution. Today the text is sung at anti-vaccination demonstrations. His grandnephew strictly rejects this.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant theologian and active in the resistance against Hitler, was murdered in the Flossenbürg concentration camp shortly before the end of the war

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