Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Final Morning

On April 9, 1945, in the gray dawn at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before being led to the gallows. The camp doctor who witnessed the execution later wrote that he had never seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God. Bonhoeffer paused at the foot of the scaffold, prayed briefly, then climbed the steps.…