As contemporaries whose resistance to Nazism came at great personal risk, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Elisabeth Schmitz never met. While Bonhoeffer’s courage has been documented since the end of World War II, evidence of Schmitz’s defiance of Nazi ideology was lost for decades. The story of her heroism is just now being widely shared with the release of a documentary, Elisabeth of Berlin, which premiered at Duke.
Bishop Kenneth Carder, professor of the practice of Christian ministry, helped bring the film’s world premiere to the Divinity School last October, with support from the United Methodist Board of Church and Society.
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