One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War II was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews.

A Nazi resistance spy, who was involved in smuggling Jews out of Nazi Germany, he was accused of being part of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler.

As a result, he was tried and hanged on April 9 1945, just days before the dictator himself took his own life in the final days of World War…