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Here are some brief descriptions of the days that led to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution…
On 5 April 1945 during Hitler’s midday conference the decision was taken: the “Zossen” group, among whom Oster, Canaris, Dohnanyi and now Bonhoeffer, were not to survive.
On 6 April Huppenkothen drove to the Sachsenhausen concentration for a court martial of Dohnanyi.
On 7 April he went to the Flossenburg concentration, to which the S.S. Judge Thorbeck had already been ordered from Nuremburg.
On 8 April and during the following night Canaris, Oster, Sack, Gehre and Strunck were all court martialled and sentenced to death.
Where was Bonhoeffer?
It was established through an oversight he had been put on the transport lorry to the south-east.
He had to be brought back… (Eberhard Bethge, Costly Grace: An Illustrated Introduction to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 131-132).
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