This volume published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer's birth documents Bonhoeffer's life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany.In hundreds of letters including ten never-before-published letters to his fiance Maria von Wedemeyer as well as official documents short original pieces and a few final sermons the volume sheds light on Bonhoeffer's active resistance to and increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime