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Berlin, Sixth Sunday after Trinity, July 23, 1933.
Bonhoeffer preached his last sermon in Berlin on a day of great tension in the Protestant church. On short notice and in defiance of German law, Hitler had called national church elections for that very day, to allow the German Christians to put in place church leaders more to his liking. Bonhoeffer and his Young Reformation students and friends campaigned hard for opposing candidates under the slogan "Church must remain church," but the network of Nazi organizations, plus a radio speech by Hitler himself the evening before, gained two-thirds of the vote for the "German Christians."