Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Not about religion)

[TrackinPat]

I have a poster of him in my room and man... everytime I reread a book about him or watch a documentary it just absolutely blows my mind what he did. I mean seriously, all the others well enough off to leave Germany before the war did so and most did not return for a long, long time. Bonhoeffer though, this guy went to New York only to realize he wouldn't morally be able to help rebuild Germany and lead the way if he did not endure the hardships with them, went back home and helped so many jewish people and others, but unfortunately did not survive his time there while plotting an assassination on Hitler... it's just such a sad story when great people like that go so young. I'm only glad that I got to read about what a wonderful person he was and can only hope to emulate him.

[bjthompson]

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[The Annoyed Man]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother Klaus were brothers in law to a friend of my family's, Max Delbrück (1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine). Max's sister Emmi was married to Klaus. Max's brother Justus, his sister Emmi, and both Klaus and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were all executed by the 3rd Reich in 1945 after being found guilty of the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

Brave people. Max was a very special man, and some of my fondest memories are of his family and my family camping together every year at Joshua Tree Nat'l Monument. The Bonhoeffers had sand.

[TrackinPat]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother Klaus were brothers in law to a friend of my family's, Max Delbrück (1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine). Max's sister Emmi was married to Klaus. Max's brother Justus, his sister Emmi, and both Klaus and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were all executed by the 3rd Reich in 1945 after being found guilty of the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

Brave people. Max was a very special man, and some of my fondest memories are of his family and my family camping together every year at Joshua Tree Nat'l Monument. The Bonhoeffers had sand.

That's incredible, what an honor to know someone related to them.

[The Annoyed Man]

I would have loved to know the Bonhoeffers. They were deeply principled men; as was Max Delbrūk. It was an honor to know him.

[TrackinPat]

I would have loved to know the Bonhoeffers. They were deeply principled men; as was Max Delbrūk. It was an honor to know him.

I bet it was, it would be an honor to speak with any one of them, matter of fact, any one still alive today that participated in either theater of WWII. It saddens me greatly to see the greatest generation slowly going. May they all rest in peace.

[The Annoyed Man]

Max was a truly renaissance man. His early career was in Astro Physics. Then he became a Nuclear Physicist. But his Nobel Prize was in the biological sciences for his work with genetics and viral replication. When we used to go camping in the desert, he would lead a group of us off into the night, away from the light of the fire, and tell us all about the stars we could see, their characteristics, how far they were, etc. And then during the day we all went caving and rock climbing. The thing is, my parents were both very well regarded professors of literature and language, and Max was even able to speak with them as a peer in their own subjects. I've never met another man who knew so much. His wife was one of my mom's best friends until she also died some years later following Max's death. His son Jonathan was an Alaskan bush pilot who married a Japanese woman and went to live in Japan for a while; and his other son Toby had just completed his PhD in Biophysics when I last saw him and was researching brain/semiconductor interfaces.

What an amazing family they were.