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Lutheran History
April 9
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An event every year that begins at 12:00 am on day 9 of April, repeating indefinitely
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April 9, 1945: The Gestapo hangs German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, after discovering his involvement in a failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer’s last recorded words were, “This is the end—for me, the beginning of life”