Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in London when he heard of Paul Schneider’s death. He gathered his nieces and nephews to tell them.

“Children, you must never forget the name of Paul Schneider. He is our first martyr.”

Schneider, like Martin Niemöller and Bonhoeffer himself, were members of the Confessing Church, pastors who would not bow the knee to Nazism, but confessed allegiance to Christ at any cost.

And Schneider was the first of them to seal his gospel witness with his blood.

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