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* Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Dehn, Günther. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2., unveränderte Auflage Hamm 1990, , Sp. 1242–1248. * Friedemann Stengel: Wer vertrieb Günther Dehn (1882–1970) aus Halle? In: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 114 (3), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISSN 0044-2925 * Raimund Hoenen: Günther Dehn (1882–1970) – Außenseiter für Frieden. In: Arno Sames (Hrsg.): 500 Jahre Theologie in Wittenberg und Halle 1502–2002. Beiträge aus der Theologischen Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg zum Universitätsjubiläum 2002. LStRLO 6, Leipzig 2003 * Rüdiger Weyer: Günther Dehn. In: derselbe: Kirche – Staat – Gesellschaft in Autobiographien des Kirchenkampfes. Nachwort: Martin Stöhr, Spenner, Waltrop 1997, , S. 190–203 20th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers German resistance to Nazism Nazi Germany and Protestantism 1882 births 1970 deaths Protestants in the German Resistance German Christian socialists {{Germany-reli-bio-stub

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