The Last Morning of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On April 9, 1945, in the gray dawn at Flossenburg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners led him to the gallows. The camp doctor who witnessed his death later wrote that he had never seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God. To the Nazi regime, Bonhoeffer's hanging was the disposal of a troublesome dissident.…