Conspiracy and Imprisonment 1940-1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Volume 16: v. 16

This volume published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffers birth documents Bonhoeffers 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 Bonhoeffers active resistance to and increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime his arrest and his long imprisonment. Finally Bonhoeffers many exchanges with his family fiance and closest friends demonstrate the affection and solidarity that accompanied Bonhoeffer to his prison cell concentration camp and eventual death.