![]() The boss in the factory where he worked was a friend of the family–I met him in 1971–and he was able to keep my grandfather from being drafted until 1943. My grandmother said that he used to listen to the BBC with his ear literally pressed against the radio speaker, because if you were caught listening to the BBC you could be sent to a concentration camp. ![]() My grandfather didn’t want to fight in Hitler’s war. The tragedy of my mother’s losing her father at that age has been a big part of my life. My grandfather was a genuinely reluctant German soldier who was killed in the war in 1944, at the age of 31. Tell us the significance of that dedication, and how in the course of your own life you were drawn to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. ![]() You dedicate your book, in German no less, to your grandfather. I put six questions to Metaxas about Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy:ġ. ![]() Eric Metaxas, whose best-selling biography of William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, provided the framework for an important motion picture, is now out with a thick review of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian who played a key role in one of the attempts to kill Adolf Hitler. ![]()
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