The tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi
I was pleasantly surprised to read The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, in the latest New York Review of Books (though there is nothing so very pleasant about the story). Here is the final paragraph (though I think there were decent but naive folks who were blind or ill-informed of the extent of the horrors):
One truth we can affirm: Hitler had no greater, more courageous, and more admirable enemies than Hans von Dohnanyi and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Both men and those closest to them deserve to be remembered and honored. Dohnanyi summed up their work and spirit with apt simplicity when he said that they were “on the path that a decent person inevitably takes.” So few traveled that path—anywhere.
