The short and the longer of it:

"Milestones" in the 8/26/96 TIME magazine summarises it this way:

EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER,

An Influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against

Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era

judgements formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had

imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a

model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ."

He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered.

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Overturning of Nazi German rulings

" The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office had announced that it was initiating

proceedings to have the 1945 death sentence against theologian Dietrich

Bonhoeffer revoked.

That announcement was followed by another also

seeking rehabilitation of Wilhem Canaris and Hans Oster, two of the figures

executed in April 1945 in connection with the failed July 20, 1944

assassination attempt upon Hitler.

Prosecutors may also seek to rehabilitate Claus Graf Schenk zu Stauffenberg

and Hans von Dohnanyi reversed as well. Both were involved in the July 20

plot.

The Berlin prosecutors argue in their petition on Bonhoeffer's behalf that

the 1945 court proceedings against him were conducted not so much to

determine the facts of the case, but rather to give a veneer of legitimacy to

the decision to execute him. Bonhoeffer had been imprisoned in 1943 for

subversion; in 1945, he was transferred from a Berlin prison to the

Buchenwald concentration camp (Thuringia) and shortly thereafter to the

one in Flossenbürg (Bavaria), where he was executed on April 9, 1945, one

day after being sentenced to death and very shortly before Germany's

capitulation and the end of the war on May 8.

In acknowledging the efforts now underway for Bonhoeffer,

Canaris and Oster, Rudiger Reiff of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office

noted that "very, very many sentences" that had been handed down by

Nazi-era courts against individuals opposed to the regime and have yet to

be reversed. "

(From Digital Anvil)

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