Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Inner Struggles During the Early Days of His Imprisonment…

We twenty-first century Christians in the fairly comfortable Western World can hardly imagine the horror of solitary confinement in a Nazi prison.  German pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew about it…

…Of the twelve days of solitary confinement…very little impression can be gained from the cheerful and controlled letters written to his parents.  The iron hardness and heartlessness of his surroundings not only emphasized the sudden break with his own life, but also seemed to symbolize the iron grip of disaster by which the past that he had loved was being destroyed…

(Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 248)