Throughout history there have been many problems in our world. One that stands above the others is the killing of the Jews in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time of horror, death, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This man stood as a light in Germany as the country continued to darken in around him. He was a man of God that refused to just drift in the streams of hate but rather to swim upstream fighting all along the way.
             Dietrich was born in Breslau in 1906. He had a very large family and he was the sixith of eight children. Dietrich's father was a famous doctor of psychiatry. His father was also very well known neurologist. His father and his vast knowledge sparked young Dietrich to learn about many complex issues. Breslau was nominally a Lutheran settlement, though not a profoundly religious environment, and the young Bonhoeffer ruffled a lot of feathers when at the age of fourteen Dietrich announced that he wanted to be a theologian.
             He studied at Thubingen and Berlin University and his dissertation has been said to be a theological miracle. He wrote his dissertation, Sanctorum Communio, at the end of three years at the University of Berlin (1924-1927) and was awarded his doctorate with honors. Act and Being, his Habilitationsschrift, or qualifying thesis allowing him to teach at the University of Berlin, he was accepted in July 1930. The following year, 1930-1931, Bonhoeffer spent a postgraduate year at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Here he met a key player in his live named Reverend Frank Fisher. His desire was still for Germany and finally came home.
             He took a teaching position in theology at the University of Berlin in August 1931. Bonhoeffer also pastored a German congregation in Barcelona during 1929-1930. Following his ordination at St. Matthias Church, Berlin, in November 1931, he was to help organize the Pastors' Emergency League in September 1933 and the Reformed Church of St. Paul in ...