Bonhoeffer's Final Morning

On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer woke in Flossenbürg concentration camp knowing he would not see another sunrise. The German pastor and theologian had spent two years imprisoned for his role in the resistance against Hitler. He had lost his pulpit, his seminary, his freedom — and soon, his life. Yet the camp doctor who watched Bonhoeffer prepare that morning later wrote that he had never seen a man go to his death so entirely at peace.…