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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Manuscript Collection The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Manuscript Collection consists of primary source material related to the life and activities of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian, professor, and member of the German resistance.

The remainder of the collection consists of materials from the collections of other repositories, including Princeton Theological Seminary and the National Lutheran Council. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Secondary Source Material The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Collection — Secondary Source Material consists of secondary materials related to the life and activities of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian, professor, and participant in the German resistance movement. The majority of the collection consists of papers written for AAR and the IBS conference, along with conference brochures, correspondence, and attendee lists.

Additional material includes journal articles, seminar papers, dissertations, newspaper clippings, and a videotape of a conference presentation. The Bonhoeffer collection also contains concert recordings and programs, play scripts, a recording of an opera performed by the Houston Opera, and a collection of poetry written in tribute to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The material gathered for this collection is not intended to be an exhaustive list or bibliography of the secondary source material on the life and works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Bonhoeffer began to train young clergy at an illegal Confessing Church seminary, Finkenwalde, which was closed by the Gestapo in September Bonhoeffer spent the next two years secretly travelling throughout eastern Germany to supervise his students, most of whom were working illegally in small parishes.

The Gestapo banned him from Berlin in January and issued an order forbidding him from public speaking in September Bonhoeffer became informed about different German resistance plans in through his brother-in-law, Hans von Dohnanyi, who worked in the Justice Ministry and was one of the earliest opponents of the regime.

In October , Dohnanyi used his connections to help Bonhoeffer avoid military service, obtaining an assignment for him in the office of Military Intelligence. Led by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the Military Intelligence office became the center of the German military resistance groups that eventually culminated in the July 20, , attempt to overthrow the regime. On behalf of the Military Intelligence office Bonhoeffer made several trips outside the Reich between and , informing ecumenical contacts in Geneva and the Vatican of the resistance plans.

The first deportations of Berlin Jews to the east occurred on October 15, A few days later, Bonhoeffer and Friedrich Perels, a Confessing Church lawyer, wrote a memo giving details of the deportations. The memo was sent to foreign contacts as well as trusted German military officials, in the hope that it might move them to action. Bonhoeffer was initially charged with conspiring to rescue Jews, using his foreign travels for non-intelligence matters, and misusing his intelligence position to help Confessing Church pastors evade military service.

After the failed July 20, , coup attempt, his connections to the broader resistance circles were uncovered and he was moved to the Gestapo prison in Berlin.

On April 9, , he was hanged with other conspirators. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of all donors. Trending keywords:. Featured Content. Tags Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics. Browse A-Z Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically.

For Teachers Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust. Wise — International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. It is not the religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the secular life. On April 9, , one month before Germany surrendered, he was hanged with six other resisters. A decade later, a camp doctor who witnessed Bonhoeffer's hanging described the scene: "The prisoners … were taken from their cells, and the verdicts of court martial read out to them.

Through the half-open door in one room of the huts, I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

Bonhoeffer's prison correspondence was eventually edited and published as Letters and Papers from Prison , which inspired much controversy and the "death of God" movement of the s though Bonhoeffer's close friend and chief biographer, Eberhard Bethge, said Bonhoeffer implied no such thing.

His Cost of Discipleship , as well as Life Together about Christian community, based on his teaching at the underground seminary , have remained devotional classics.

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