The Beginning of the Nazi Era and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was, as far as I know, the first to be censored by the Nazis…

In 1933, the year Adolf Hitler seized power, there were decisive changes in Bonhoeffer’s life.  He firmly supported the church’s opposition to the new regime.  In the period immediately following January 31, 1933, Bonhoeffer spoke on a radio broadcast that was cut off, in which he commented that a leader who would make himself the idol of his followers would be a misleader (Renate Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life, 24).