Bonhoeffer's Final Communion at Flossenburg

On April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in a makeshift room at the Schonberg school, where prisoners were being held in transit. He knew what was coming. The Gestapo had already issued his death warrant. Yet that Sunday morning, the German pastor did something remarkable — he led a communion service for his fellow prisoners, men of different nations and confessions crowded together in uncertainty.…