the story of human rights violations

1. Dietrich Bonnhoeffer

2. Content
1. Facts
1. Life Story
1. Nazi Germany
1. Bonnhoeffer against Nazis

3. Facts
• * 4. Februar 1906 in Breslau;
• † 9. April 1945 im KZ Flossenbürg
• Lutheran pastor
• anti-Nazi dissident
• Parents: Karl Bonhoeffer & Paula Bonhoeffer
• 7 Brothers & Sisters

4. Life Story
4. February 1906: Birth
1923-27: studied Theology (in Tübingen, Rome & Berlin)
1933: after the takeover of the National Socialists, he criticised the Nazi‘s policy at a
broadcast
1940: talking- and writing ban.
1940-43: gets contact to resistant groups against
national socialism
1943: married Maria von Wedemeyer
1943 5th April: gets arrested by the gestapo
1943-45: gets arrested in the military prison in Berlin-Tegel, Gestapo-Prison & KZ
Buchenwald
1945 8.april: The SS brings Bonhoeffer to the KZ in Flossenbürg
1945 9.april: just before the relief of the KZ, Bonhoeffer gets killed by the rope

5. Nazi Germany
• from 1933-1945
• Germany under control
of Adolf Hitler &
the NSDAP
• Antisemitism: central
feature of the regime
6 million Jews
were killed
• Second World War

6. Bonnhoeffer against
Nazis
• Travelled to USA
• recogniced that he have to help the Jews
in Germany
• Travelled back to Germany
• Supported Jews
• Fighted against Nazi Germany
• Conspiracy against Hitler

7. Bonnhoeffer against
Nazis
• Travelled to USA
• recogniced that he have to help the Jews
in Germany
• Travelled back to Germany
• Supported Jews
• Fighted against Nazi Germany
• Conspiracy against Hitler