Alexander Schmorell served in the Wehrmacht during World War II. This didn't stop him from becoming one of the most prominent fighters against Nazism. "Let us thank God for the strength he gives us in the fight against Satan. Let us die if we must, but at least many Germans will finally have their eyes opened." Thus wrote Alexander Schmorell, a German soldier who defied Hitler and who would be declared a saint after his death, in a letter to his sister from death row. An Orthodox Christian German Schmorell was born in 1917 in the family of a Russified...