Includes bibliographical references (p. 943-1023) and index.

The Lure of Theology -- Childhood and Youth: 1906-1923 -- Ancestors -- Parents' Home in Breslau -- Berlin -- The Decision to Become a Theologian -- Student Years: 1923-1927 -- Family -- Tubingen -- Rome -- Berlin -- Dissertation -- Seminar Essays -- First Ties to a Regional Church -- Assistant Pastor in Barcelona: 1928 -- Selecting a Post as Vicar -- The Country -- The Parish -- Plans for the Future -- Assistant Lecturer in Berlin: 1929-1930 -- Postdoctoral Work -- Family and Friends -- American Plans -- America: 1930-1931 -- The Country -- Friends -- Union Theological Seminary -- The Return Home -- The Cost of Being a Christian -- Lecturer and Pastor: 1931-1932 -- Bonn -- Catechism -- Cambridge -- The Transition from Theologian to Christian -- The University -- The Church -- Ecumenism -- Berlin: 1933 -- February: Controlled Chaos -- March: Hitler's Laws -- April: The German Christians -- May: The Young Reformation Movement -- June: The State Commissar -- July: Church Elections -- August: The Bethel Confession -- September: The Aryan Clause -- London: 1933-1935 -- Parish Minister -- First Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1933-1934 -- George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester -- Fano -- Second Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1934-1935 -- Plans -- Preachers' Seminary: 1935 -- The Seminaries -- Zingst and Finkenwalde -- The Syllabus -- The House of Brethren -- The Ecumenical World -- The Steglitz Resolutions -- Finkenwalde: 1936-1937 -- The Fifth Implementation Decree -- The Journey to Sweden -- The Essay on Church-Community -- The Memorandum to Hitler -- "Service to Others" -- Chamby, 1936 -- The Last Year in Finkenwalde -- The End of Finkenwalde -- The Collective Pastorates: 1938-1940 -- The Backwoods of Pomerania -- The Low Point of the Church Struggle -- Legalization -- The Lure of the Political Realm -- England: March and April 1939 -- America: June and July 1939 -- The War -- Christian and Man for His Times -- Sharing Germany's Destiny -- Travels: 1940-1943 -- Section One: The Church -- The Confessing Church during the War -- Professional Problems -- Theology -- Section Two: The Conspiracy -- The First Stage: Information, Spring 1941 -- The Second Stage: Peace Aims, Autumn 1941 -- The Third Stage: Information on the Coup, 1942 -- The Arrest -- The Engagement -- The "Borderline Case" -- Tegel: 1943-1944 -- The Trial of Hans von Dohnanyi -- The Investigation of Bonhoeffer -- The Cell in Tegel -- The New Theology -- In the Custody of the State: 1944-1945 -- Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse -- Buchenwald -- Flossenburg -- The Bitter End -- The Zossen Files -- Bonhoeffer's Readings in Prison.