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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...

an eye for human relationships, lacking experience with reality[64] and a sense of inherited values speaks that way. Perennial sophomores![65] They judge their own strength only by the ruins they leave behind them. They think it smart to smash as much fine china as possible, and they cheer childishly at the clatter of broken plates.[66] They consider it a sign of strong character never to retreat a step, never to yield to another, never to compromise. “As long as we are children, we may indulge in
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