How the Christian right is twisting the legacy of an anti Nazi hero

11 months in The guardian

As the election approaches, experts say a rightwing author is using the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer – executed for resisting Hitler – as a figurehead against the left, raising fears of political violenceThis article is co-published with DocumentedLeading figures on the Christian right have seized on an unlikely hero in their campaign against secular government: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an antifascist theologian and pastor who resisted the Nazi regime before he was executed in 1945. Continue reading...

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