📍Marienburger Allee 43, 14055 Berlin, Germany
1935 – 1943“I grew up in a large, cultured family in Berlin; my father was one of Germany's leading psychiatrists and my mother educated us at home in our early years. We were eight children, with music, debate and Christian faith in the house, and my brothers and sisters became scientists, lawyers and teachers. I chose theology, to their surprise. In 1935 my parents built a new house for their retirement at Marienburger Allee 43, in the quiet western suburbs of Charlottenburg, and it became my home whenever I was in Berlin. Those were dark years. I had spoken against the Nazi regime from the beginning, trained pastors for the Confessing Church in secret, and lost my right to teach and preach publicly. My room under the roof of my parents' house was my refuge: there I wrote, studied, received friends and kept my books and my piano music. Around our family table gathered people who had decided to resist. My brother Klaus, my brothers-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi and Rüdiger Schleicher, and I became part of the circle working against Hitler from within. On 5 April 1943 the Gestapo came to the house and arrested me. In prison I wrote the letters and papers that, after the war, were read around the world, about faith, responsibility and costly grace. The house where we talked, prayed and planned is now the Bonhoeffer-Haus, a memorial and place of encounter, and my attic study has been arranged as I left it, for those who come to reflect on conscience and courage.”
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