Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, course: Gedenkrede am Massachusetts Institut of Technology, language: English, abstract: This paper has been given in April 2005 at MIT to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffers death. Providing basic historical background information and quoting documents - some of which are not well-known in the English speaking world - it attempts to show what it meant for Bonhoeffer to be a disciple of Christ under the Third Reich.