Critical Response to: Taking pause for Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will of Nazi Germany
In the author's notes for this article Ken, you write, "Surely we are accountable for what we do, but doesn't that depend on whose side we give our allegiance, and who is in control and domination at the time?" This question is similar to the question raised by Dietrich von Bonhoeffer. Upon leaving his post at Union Theological Seminary and returning to Germany, Bonhoeffer wrote: "I must live through this difficult period of our national history with the Christian people of Germany. I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people…. Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization" (Gesammelte Schriften 1:320). In the question you pose, you have two premises which you try
