Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chan­cel­lor of Ger­many, the Luther­an pas­tor Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer took to the air­waves. Before his radio broad­cast was cut off, he warned his coun­try­men that their führer could well be a ver­führer, or mis­leader. Bon­ho­ef­fer­’s anti-Nazism last­ed until the end of his life in 1945, when he was exe­cut­ed by … Con­tin­ue read­ing When Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer, a Ger­man Pas­tor, The­o­rized How Stu­pid­i­ty Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)