How the Christian right is twisting the legacy of an anti-Nazi hero

As the election approaches, experts say a rightwing author is using the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer - executed for resisting Hitler - as a figurehead against the left, raising fears of political violence

This article is co-published with Documented

Leading figures on the Christian right have seized on an unlikely hero in their campaign against secular government: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an antifascist theologian and pastor who resisted the Nazi regime before he was executed in 1945.