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Writing fiction, letters to his family, fiancée, and friends and contending with his interrogator occupied Bonhoeffer during his first year in Tegel Prison. Of the incomplete drama, the novel fragment, and the short story, Bonhoeffer admitted to his friend and later biographer, Eberhard Bethge, “There is a good deal of autobiography mixed with it.” This book discloses a great deal of Bonhoeffer’s...

were each quite alone in the world and that everyone else existed only for our sakes.[58] This illusion had made us blind to one another.[59] To be sure, we had nothing to reproach each other about. Our views and the concepts of honor and decency that we had learned from our parents were the same. In fact, we even felt a certain attraction, and certainly we respected each other.[60] And yet neither of us could stand the other’s presence. Each of us thought the other was getting in his way and should
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