Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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How Did Stephen Bonhoeffer Write?
Following the Wolfsler plot, documents were found which implicated Bonhoeffer and several other conspirators. He was transferred to a high security Gestapo prison. And then from there, when the diary of Admiral Kanaris, who is the head of the abbe, the head of military intelligence is found,. As a result of that, Bonhoeffer's absolutely implicated. In Flossenburg, he is tried at night in a laundry. He's caught marshalled and sentenced to be hanged the next morning. Although there's some question about the account of this the next morning, he knelt and prayed quietly before being hanged with another fellow conspirator by the neck on a meet-hook
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