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...letters reflected overwhelming courage and inflexible faith. In his last message to Maria, written at Christmas time, 1944, he said: "What is happiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on that which happens inside a person." Four months later he was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria...
...Others. Bonhoeffer believed that it was morally right to assassinate Hitler, and had a share in planning an abortive 1943 plot against the Führer's life. That year, however, he was arrested; in 1945 he was tried for treason and hanged by the SS at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, a few days before the area was liberated by Allied troops. At his death...
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