A Private Document of Great Contemporary Historical Importance - The Special Edition with the complete text inventory of Volume 8 of "Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke" - Testimony of a Christianity that knows how to commit itself No other theological book of the 20th century has made a more lasting impression on readers in the German-speaking world than Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters and notes from his imprisonment, which were first published by Eberhard Bethge in 1951 under the title "Widerstand und Ergebung" (Resistance and Surrender). Bonhoeffer's letters to his parents and to his friend Eberhard Bethge, as well as his notes, reports, prayers and poems, sermons and meditations, and theological recordings, are a private document of the greatest historical significance, illustrating how Bonhoeffer lived his cell existence in the last two years of his life.