On April 9, 1945, just weeks before Nazi Germany collapsed, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp. Bonhoeffer was a courageous and outspoken critic of Adolf Hitler, whose deep Christian faith drove him to resist the regime. Ordered by…
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In the final months of World War II in Europe—when Nazi forces, though weakening, still held dangerous power—March 24, 1944, marked a bold act of resistance. On that night, seventy-six Allied prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III, a German-run prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Lower…
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On March 23, 1933, the German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act (Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich), granting Adolf Hitler the authority to enact laws without parliamentary approval. Voted into law under immense political pressure and threats of violence, this moment…
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Following the attack on Poland in 1939, Nazi forces made Kraków the capital of the General Government, an occupied territory not initially annexed into the Third Reich. Soon after the invasion, persecution of the city’s Jewish residents began, marked by the compulsory wearing of…
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