This book brings together for the first time the most moving testimonies from the Christian resistance against Hitler, including previously unpublished texts. The letters and records, often written in great distress and danger, deeply touch us and make us reflect on where courage for resistance is needed today. For many resisters, their Christian faith became a moral compass and a source of their courage. They were very different people: theologians who turned away from the churches in disappointment, civil servants and military personnel who could no longer bear to participate in crimes, students dreaming of a just future, women and men, young and old, Catholics and Protestants. Some were led to resistance by their faith, while others became convinced Christians through the life-threatening resistance. They were all united by the conviction that.