How did Dietrich Bonhoeffer die?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a prominent German Protestant theologian and member of the resistance against the Nazi regime, was executed on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany.1

Following his arrest on April 5, 1943, Bonhoeffer was initially imprisoned in Berlin. His involvement in the conspiracy to overthrow Adolf Hitler became definitively linked to him after the failure of the July Plot in 1944, when documents were discovered that directly connected him to the resistance movement. This evidence led to further interrogation and his eventual death by hanging.21