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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.

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.

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.

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 [[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.

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>

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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