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This splendid volume, in many ways the capstone of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, is the first unabridged collection of Bonhoeffer's 1943–1945 prison letters and theological writings. Here are over 200 documents that include extensive correspondence with his family and Eberhard Bethge (much of it in English for the first time), as well as his ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor and theologian, supporter of anti-Hitler conspiracy (executed 9 April 1945). Count Guglielmo Barbò di Casalmorano, Italian Army Major General, (executed 14 December 1944). [1] Gustave Biéler, SOE agent (executed 6 September 1944)
Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of Flossenbürg and near the German border with Czechoslovakia.
In April 1943, the Gestapo arrested Bonhoeffer and Dohnanyi for their part in the scheme, which they had been alerted to because of the use of Abwehr funds in the operation. [ 3 ] Bonhoeffer's involvement in Operation 7 was one of the pieces of evidence used by Stephen A. Wise in the petition for his inclusion in the Yad Vashem list of ...
Bonhoeffer was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on 9 April 1945. Bonhoeffer's remaining possessions from his time in prison were returned to his parents, including the letters that Maria had written to him. His parents returned those letters to her and, as result, she possessed their (essentially) complete correspondence.
Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”
Beside her husband and her brother Dietrich Bonhoeffer, she was also arrested by the Gestapo in the house in Sacrow on 5 April 1943 on suspicion of treason. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] For a long time, Hans von Dohnanyi knew nothing about the arrest of his wife and brother-in-law and attempted unsuccessfully to send letters to Christine from prison.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.