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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Epilogue

Notes

Dedication

To Beth.

You show me every day what it means to “live for others” in a Christlike way.

Thank you for your love.

prologue

April 5, 1943—Berlin, Germany

He looked older than his thirty-seven years. Deep lines radiated out from his eyes and across his face. His blond, thinning hair barely covered the top of his head, even if he had combed it carefully. His shoulders slumped as if they were carrying a lead weight. Sweat beaded above his eyebrows.

During the last six months, Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been involved in two attempts to kill the leader of his country—a madman named Adolf Hitler. Both of those attempts had failed. Now, as he sat at a large oak desk in an upstairs bedroom of his parents’ house, he painstakingly examined every document that was piled on the desk, looking for anything that might reveal his involvement in the plots against the Führer.

Thirty minutes earlier, he had phoned his brother-in-law, Hans von Dohnanyi, who was one of his fellow conspirators. When a man with a gruff voice answered the phone, Dietrich knew at that moment that Hans was in the hands of the Gestapo. The secret police force of the Nazi regime would be coming for him next.

As he went through the stack of papers, his mind raced. Should he tell his parents and sister, who were having tea in the kitchen below? Should he try to flee, and if so, where? All he knew for sure was that he needed to destroy anything that would help the Nazis convict him of treason. Thus he carefully examined each piece of paper and placed the ones whose ...