Dietrich Bonhoeffer,German theologian, Lutheran Pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, was hanged on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, only days before the U.S. Forces arrived on April 23, 1945 and liberated the camp.
Bonhoeffer, was executed on the orders of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, alongside others prisoners who were directly implicated in the unsuccessful plot to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944, such as Lutheran Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (former head of the German Abwehr or military intelligence), and Major General Hans Oster, and others.
