Plaque dedicated to Dietrich Bonhoeffer unveiled

[Thomas]

Bonhoeffer was a pastor at two German Churches, in Sydenham and Aldgate in the 1930s before returning to Germany, where he was executed in 1945 in the final days of the Nazi regime.

A plaque was unveiled at the site of the Aldgate church recently:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 912324.ece

[pip]

Thanks for the posting Thomas. No doubt in my mind as for the new name for the Naborhood Centre.

[Ulysses]

I certainly don't want to appear as paranoid but I am slightly dissapointed that no mention is given of his time in Sydenham. I appreciate this article is concerned with Aldgate but it's either another example of lazy journalism and not researching the subject matter fully or another example of Sydenham being slowly air-brushed from history.

[DanW]

He also lived at 2 Manor Mount (behind the Sainsburys in Forest Hill) for some time when much of the building was a German girls school - there's a blue plaque there.

[admin]

Here is the rebuilt Dietrich Bonhoeffer Kirche in Dacres Road - the original German Church having being destroyed by the Germans:


Sydenham is, with half of europe, mentioned in his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonhoeffer

Admin

[admin]

... another example of Sydenham being slowly air-brushed from history.

Or even hair brushed:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... r-dye.html

Sorry,
Admin

[Ulysses]

That's terrible Admin. Very good play on words though. Are you reading The Scum to keep the chat lively with the regulars at the bar over in the Town Pub?

I refer to The Sun in such as way as I am a Liverpool fan who attends a good few games. It's in no way a slight on those who read it.