The Last Enemy Had Already Lost

On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in the gray dawn at Flossenburg concentration camp. The Nazi regime had sentenced him to death for his role in the resistance. 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's last recorded words, spoken to a fellow prisoner, were simply: "This is the end — for me, the beginning of life."…