As Hitler and the Nazi regime began to grow in power, few men were willing to publicly renounce his actions. However, one Luther Pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was brave enough to give a national radio address against the Nazi regime on February 1, 1933. In this address, he powerfully reminded his listeners that their faith should not be placed in the hands of any man except for Christ Jesus. His audience would have understood that this was not merely a religious sentiment, but that he was unabashedly condemning Hitler’s actions. Bonhoeffer later became a spy and an organizer of the Confessing Church, and he was brutally hanged in a concentration camp a mere two weeks before the Allies liberated those who remained in it.
