Bonhoeffer's Thirst in Tegel Prison

In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and locked inside Tegel Military Prison in Berlin. His cell was small, the blanket filthy, the guards hostile. For the first twelve days, they refused him a Bible. A pastor — stripped of pulpit, congregation, and freedom — sat in a concrete room with nothing but silence and memory. Yet something remarkable emerged in his letters.…