{"product_id":"9781590177020","title":"No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State","description":"During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took  the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still  did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In \u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Men\u003c\/i\u003e,  Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous  men who did—the pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his close  friend and brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi—and offer new insights into  the fearsome difficulties that resistance entailed. (Not forgotten is  Christine Bonhoeffer Dohnanyi, Hans’s wife and Dietrich’s sister, who  was indispensable to them both.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the start Bonhoeffer  opposed the Nazi efforts to bend Germany’s Protestant churches to  Hitler’s will, while Dohnanyi, a lawyer in the Justice Ministry and then  in the Wehrmacht’s counterintelligence section, helped victims, kept  records of Nazi crimes to be used as evidence once the regime fell, and  was an important figure in the various conspiracies to assassinate  Hitler. The strength of their shared commitment to these  undertakings—and to the people they were helping—endured even after  their arrest in April 1943 and until, after great suffering, they were  executed on Hitler’s express orders in April 1945, just weeks before the  Third Reich collapsed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBonhoeffer’s posthumously published \u003ci\u003eLetters and Papers from Prison\u003c\/i\u003e and other writings found a wide international audience, but Dohnanyi’s  work is scarcely known, though it was crucial to the resistance and he  was the one who drew Bonhoeffer into the anti-Hitler plots. Sifton and  Stern offer dramatic new details and interpretations in their account of  the extraordinary efforts in which the two jointly engaged. \u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Men\u003c\/i\u003e honors both Bonhoeffer’s human decency and his theological legacy, as  well as Dohnanyi’s preservation of the highest standard of civic virtue  in an utterly corrupted state.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183900410096,"sku":"9781590177020","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177020_p0.jpg?v=1763810037","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177020","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}