Bonhoeffer's Hidden Life in Tegel Prison
In the summer of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, awaiting trial for his role in the conspiracy against...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Colossians 3:1-4.
In the summer of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, awaiting trial for his role in the conspiracy against Hitler. Guards described him as calm, even cheerful. Fellow prisoners sought him out for comfort. One guard was so moved by Bonhoeffer's demeanor that he offered to help him escape. Yet Bonhoeffer refused. He wrote a poem from that cell titled Who Am I?…
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