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| | A website dedicated to his memory describes his sacrifice:<ref>http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/node/3</ref> | | A website dedicated to his memory describes his sacrifice:<ref>http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/node/3</ref> |
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| − | :The integrity of his Christian faith and life, and the international appeal of his writings, have led to a broad consensus that he is the one theologian of his time to lead future generations of Christians into the new millennium.
| + | The integrity of his Christian faith and life, and the international appeal of his writings, have led to a broad consensus that he is the one theologian of his time to lead future generations of Christians into the new millennium. |
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| − | :He was hanged in the concentration camp at Flossenbürg on April 9, 1945, one of four members of his immediate family to die at the hands of the [[Nazi]] regime for their participation in the small Protestant resistance movement. The letters he wrote during these final two years of his life were posthumously published by his student and friend, Eberhard Bethge, as Letters and Papers from Prison. His correspondence with his fiance, Maria von Wedermeyer, has been published as Love Letters from Cell 92.
| + | Bonhoeffer was a member of a group of an organization that helped [[Jews]] escape to [[Switzerland]]. He also took part in a conspiracy to kill [[Adolf Hitler]]. Hitler personally ordered his execution. |
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| − | Perhaps one of his most thought provoking quotes was: "First they came for the [[Jews]], and I didn't speak out - because I was
| + | He was hanged in the concentration camp at [[Flossenbürg]] on [[April]] 9, 1945, just three weeks before the city was liberated . His brother and two of his brothers in law also died at the hands of the [[Nazi]] regime for their participation in the small Protestant resistance movement. The letters he wrote during these final two years of his life were posthumously published by his student and friend, Eberhard Bethge, as Letters and Papers from Prison. His correspondence with his fiance, Maria von Wedermeyer, has been published as Love Letters from Cell 92. |
| − | not a Jew. Then they came for the [[Communist|Communists]], and I did not speak out
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| − | because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me!"
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| | + | An SS prison doctor who was at the execution described Bonhoeffer as "kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God", and he went on to say "at the place of execution, he again said a short prayer... In almost 50 years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4906502.stm</ref> |
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