“Maar het alternatief, stil toekijken terwijl Jodenhaat steeds meer wordt genormaliseerd in onze samenleving, is geen optie. En zou dat voor niemand – Joods of niet-Joods – moeten zijn.” Indringend en herkenbaar… https://t.co/1oT0oG3C9f
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis on April 9, 1945 at the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
A camp doctor who was there gave this eyewitness account:
“On the morning of that day between five and six o’clock the prisoners, including Admiral Canaris, General Oster and state attorney Dr. Sack were taken from their cells and the verdicts of the court martial read out to them. Through the half-open door in one room of the huts, I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer, and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.”
Bonhoeffer's last recorded words: "This is the end—for me the beginning of life."
Een menigte voor zich te winnen is niet zo’n grote kunst; daarvoor is slechts wat talent nodig, een zekere dosis onwaarheid en wat kennis van de menselijke hartstochten.
Søren Kierkegaard, 1859 (postuum)
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