When Hitler rose to power in 1933, not every German was an enthusiastic supporter. One of the early opponents to Hitler was a pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer's resistance would ultimately lead to his execution at one of the many concentration camps scattered across the Third Reich; Flossenburg.
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