The Last Word of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
On April 9, 1945, at Flossenburg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners led him to the gallows. Allied forces were days...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21.
On April 9, 1945, at Flossenburg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners led him to the gallows. Allied forces were days away from liberating the camp. Liberation was coming — but not soon enough for Bonhoeffer. Yet his final recorded words to a fellow prisoner were astonishing in their confidence: "This is the end — for me, the beginning of life."…
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