Born in Germany in 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer an ordained Lutheran pastor, scholar, and writer, became one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. He taught at Union theological Seminary in New York for a year in 1930, and volunteered as a Sunday school teacher at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. At the time Bonhoeffer returned to Germany Hitler was rising to power. Bonhoeffer saw Hitler’s treatment of the Jews to be parallel with the racial discrimination he observed in America. Bonhoeffer played a central role in the Confessing Church during the Nazi period When Hitler came to power in 1933. The Confessing Church was the center of Protestant resistance to the Nazis. Bonhoeffer is arrested and imprisoned on April 5, 1943. Two years later, at the age of 39, he is executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp for his involvement in the resistance.