The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He is ordained at St. Matthew's Church in Berlin

"the Church and the Jewish Question" was Bonhoeffer's first attempt to address the church's decisions under Nazi rule.

The Aryan Paragraph was implemented in the Church of the Old Prussian Union, excluding membership for certain minorities, including Jews.

Finkenwalde was and underground seminary that was shut down by the Gestapo in 1937.

The German title is "Gemeinsames Leben"

Bonhoeffer was encouraged to leave by all of his friends, but he returned to Germany after just a week in the U.S. due to conflicting emotions of guilt about his departure from Germany. He felt it necessary that he should undergo the suffering with his people.

Begins with Germany's invasion of Poland.

Bonhoeffer had met her before, but this was the time he first began to develop romantic feelings for her. Their romance was difficult due to him being twice her age, but they were eventually engaged.

von Stauffenberg's planned assassination of Adolf Hitler fails, causing problems for all who were involved in the plot, including Bonhoeffer.

The Gestapo uncovers secret files of the resistance in Zossen, implicating Bonhoeffer in the July 20 Plot and undoing his hope for release.

He was executed along with others who were implicated in the resistance, just a month before the Nazis surrendered.

The poems were published on the first anniversary of his death.

This is later redistributed in English as "Letters and Papers from Prison

This is still considered the standard biography of Bonhoeffer.