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Apr 9, 2018 · Bonhoeffer’s Death. At the break of dawn on April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged. As they prepared him for his death, he preached a final sermon. His words were remembered and later retold, by a captured RAF pilot: “This is for me the end, the beginning of life.”
Bonhoeffer made Eberhard Bethge his heir, but Maria, in allowing her correspondence with Bonhoeffer to be published after her death, provided an invaluable addition to this scholarship. For a year and a half, Bonhoeffer was imprisoned at Tegel Prison awaiting trial.
Feb 7, 2011 · Praise. For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month ...
Nov 5, 2009 · On April 9, 1945, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg, only days before the American liberation of the POW camp. The last words of the brilliant and ...
- Missy Sullivan
Even in prison, as death became more certain, Bonhoeffer had a sensual longing for his fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer, a deeper love for the earth, and a freshly awakened aesthetic sensitivity. As Robertson writes: ‘In the long warm evenings, Bonhoeffer was aware of his longings to be free and enjoy life to the full.
Mar 18, 2014 · The final stage on the road to freedom is death. For Bonhoeffer, death by hanging came on April 9, 1945 at age 39 in Flossenbürg concentration camp. Even though Bonhoeffer refers to death as the “highest of feasts on the way to freedom,” he did not wish to die.
Dietrich Bonhœffer was a protestant German pastor and theologian, and also the co-founder of the confessing Church. He was opposed to the growing Nazi influence on protestant German churches. He died a martyr of faith and political rebel to the Hitler regime.
