More on the Inner Struggles of Dietrich Bonhoeffer During the Early Days of His Imprisonment…

…During the hours when Bonhoeffer sat in silence in his cell, the horror of this destruction weighed him down to the point of death.  Added to this was the fearful prospect of the interrogations, possibly of physical torture, under the stress of which he might reveal secrets which could constitute the death warrant for Hans von Dohnanyi and others to whom he was bound by ties of loyalty…

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