Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi warns against the dangers posed by Trump’s presidency in a personal statement.

Christoph von Dohnányi has written a blog post lamenting the religious intolerance and hatred President Trump has unleashed on the United States with his widely condemned Muslim ban.

^{Christoph von Dohnányi. Photo: ABC}

Dohnányi, 87, wrote unflinchingly about his family’s suffering under the Nazi regime. Four members of his family perished in concentration camps across Europe.

“Four men in my family were executed by the Nazis. Hans von Dohnányi, my father, honored in Yad Vashem, was killed in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen short before the Second World War ended. At the same time the world-renowned theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, brother of my mother, my godfather, was executed in the concentration camp Flossenbürg.”

Dohnányi made clear that his uncle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, would have been “extremely unhappy observing a tendency of religious intolerance in the country he once admired so much for its freedom and acceptance. He never could have imagined that this strong, great nation would find itself in the political and ethical crisis it now faces”. Bonhoeffer was a strong anti-Nazi dissident, executed after being accused...