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"In 1939 he sailed to the United States, and once again to New York. But war was imminent. He chose to return to his own country, knowing what costs may lie before him, and remarking that the victory of Nazism in Europe would destroy Christian civilization.
By then he and members of his own family had for some time been on the fringe of circles that were opposed to the Nazi regime. To Bonhoeffer, true discipleship now demanded political resistance against this criminal state. He wrote that the Christian must live maturely and responsibly in the world, and live by God's grace, not by ideology."
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/dietrich-bonhoeffer
(My father studied with Herr Bonhoeffer at Union Theological Seminary in New York, befor his return to Germany.)