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Mike Bird continues his conversation with historian John McCabe, tracing Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the German resistance and reconstructing the extraordinary final days before his execution.Bonhoeffer had once seriously considered studying nonviolence with Gandhi. Yet faced with Hitler’s regime, he came to support the terrible choice that the Führer had to be removed. McCabe explains what Bonhoeffer actually knew, how deeply he was connected to the resistance and why the Gestapo eventually arrested him. Then the story becomes a dramatic countdown through a collapsing Germany: overcrowded prison vans, Allied bombing, acts of unexpected kindness, a British agent secretly sabotaging their transport and, finally, Bonhoeffer’s last Sunday service before the Gestapo came for him.Subscribe & Support👉 Support thought-provoking conversations and help keep the show going at www.premierunbelievable.com/geolink/donate💡🎧 Never miss an episode! Subscribe to the History's Last Stand podcast at https://www.premier.plus/historys-last-stand-with-michael-bird🎙️🔗 Get bonus content, updates, fascinating articles, and early access to new episodes - absolutely free! Join now at www.premierunbelievable.com/ 📢 Follow us
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Released on 10 Sep 2026
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