J
Jacobi, Gerhard, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
James, William, ♣
Japan: attack on Pearl Harbor, ♣; U.S.
declaration of war on, ♣
Jehle, Herbert, ♣
Jensen, Hans-Werner,
Jews: abductions of, ♣; academia
closed to, ♣; banned from cultural
and entertainment activities, ♣;
beginning of Hitler’s persecution
deadly beatings of (Lithuania), ♣;
deportations of, ♣, ♦; expelled
from the world of journalism, ♣;
forbidden to display the Reich,
national flag, national colors, ♣;
forbidden to employee female
forbidden to marry Germans, ♣;
Hitler’s boycott of businesses owned
by, ♣- ♦; in the concentration
camps, ♣; law prohibiting
extramarital intercourse with
numbers limited in public schools,
officially barred from the church, ♣;
prohibited from serving as patent
lawyers or as doctors, dentists, or
dental technicians in institutions with
state-run insurance, ♣; prohibitions
expanded to include spouses of, ♣;
requirement to wear the yellow star,
John, Otto, ♣
Juarez (film), ♣
Jung, Carl, ♣
Junge, Gertraud, ♣
Junge Kirche, ♣
Junkers, ♣
K
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Kaiser-Wilhelm-
Institut, aka Kaiser Wilhelm Society),
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, ♣, ♦
Kaiser Wilhelm Society. See Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute
Kalkreuth, Leopold (Count), ♣
Kalkreuth, Stanislaus (Count), ♣, ♦
Kalckreuth, Countess, ♣
Kamnitz, Joachim, ♣
Karlström, Nils, ♣
Kaufhaus des Westens (department store),
Keitel, Wilhelm, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Keller, Helen, ♣
Kelly, Geffrey, ♣
Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, ♣
King James Bible, ♣
Kirchenkampf (church struggle), ♣, ♦,
♣. See also church struggle
Klapproth, Erich, ♣
Klein-Krössin (Krosinko, Poland), ♣,
Kleist, Hans-Friedrich, ♣
Kleist-Schmenzin, Ewald von, ♣, ♦-
Knoblauch (corporal, at Tegel), ♣, ♦,
Koch, Ilse, ♣
Koenigsplatz (Königsplatz, Munich), ♣, ♦
Kokorin, Vassily, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Köslin (Koszalin, Middle Pomerania,
Kreisau Circle, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠, †,
Kreutzer, Leonid, ♣
Kreuzzeitung (newspaper), ♣
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass),
Kube, Wilhelm, ♣
Kulturkampf (culture wars), ♣
Laocoön and His Sons (sculpture), ♣, ♦
Lansberg am Lech (Germany), ♣
Lasserre, Jean, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠- †, ‡,
Legal Gazette, ♣
Lehmann, Marion, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠- †,
Leibholz, Gerhard (Gert), ♣, ♦, ♥- ♠,
Leibholz, Marianne, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠
Leibholz, Sabine (Bonhoeffer), ♣, ♦, ♥,
Leiper, Henry Smith, ♣, ♦, ♥- ♠,
Leipzig (Germany), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
Lemelsen, Joachim (general), ♣
Lenchen (Fräulein: governess to Bonhoeffer
Letters and Papers from Prison (Bethge, ed.),
Life and Work (ecumenical organization),
Life Together (Bonhoeffer), xi, ♣, ♦, ♥
Liszt, Franz, ♣
Loccum (Germany), ♣
London, Jack, ♣
Losungen (“watch words”: publication of the
Louis Ferdinand (prince of Prussia), ♣,
Love Letters from Cell ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Luftwaffe (air force), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Luther, Martin, xi-♣, ♦- ♥, ♠, †,
Luther Bible, ♣
Lyman, Dr. (Union prof.), ♣
M
Maass, Theodor, ♣
Macy (Rev.), ♣
Madison Avenue Church, ♣
Maechler, Winfried, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Magdeburg Cathedral, ♣
manifesto: Hitler’s (Mein Kampf, ♣;
of George Schultz (Sydow
brotherhood), ♣; of the Meisserites,
♣- ♦; of the Pastors’ Emergency
League, ♣; of the Provisional
Committee of the World Council of
Churches, ♣
Mann, Thomas, ♣
mark (German monetary unit). See German
mark
marriages between Jews and Germans, ♣
McComb, Dr. (Broadway Presbyterian
Church), ♣
medical experiments (on concentration
Mein Kampf (Hitler), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Mendelssohn, Felix: removal of statue of,
“mercy killings,” ♣
Meumann, Karl (Rev.), ♣
Meyer, Oscar (physicist), ♣
Michaelskirche (St. Michael’s Church), ♣
Moltke, Helmuth von (count), ♣, ♦-
monarchy, ♣
Moravian Brethren, ♣
Morgenstern, Christian, ♣
Morning Post (London), ♣
Morrell, Theodor, ♣
Müller, Johann Heinrich Ludwig, ♣,
Müller, Joseph, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠- †, ‡,
Müller, Rev. (superintendent at
Zionskirche), ♣
“muzzle decree,” (Decree for the
Restoration of Orderly Conditions
in the German Evangelical Church),
mysticism, ♣
N Nacht
Nacht der Langen Messer, ♣. See also Night of
the Long Knives
Nachfolge (Discipleship), xi, ♣, ♦, ♥. See
also Cost of Discipleship, The
National Socialists (Nazi Party), ♣, ♦,
orthodoxy of, ♣
national synod, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †.
See also Brown Synod
Nazi: official anthem, ♣; theology, ♦-
Nazi storm troopers, ♣, ♦. See also
Brownshirts (SA)
neo-orthodoxy, ♣
neo-Protestantism, ♣
Neurath, Konstantin von (baron, Reich
minister of foreign affairs), ♣
New Testament: German Christians’
distortion of, ♣
New York City, ♣, ♦, ♥- ♠, †, ‡,
New York Times, ♣
New York World-Telegram, ♣
Nicea, ♣
Niebuhr, Reinhold, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠- †,
Niemöller, Martin, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, ♣- ♦
Night of the Long Knives, ♣- ♦, ♥
Nikolaikirche (Church of St. Nicholas,
Berlin), ♣
Nithack, Ulrich, ♣
Nordic Ecumenical Institute, ♣, ♦
Nymwegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands), ♣
O
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), ♣- ♦.
See OKW
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, ♣
Olbricht, Friedrich, ♣- ♦, ♥- ♠, †, ‡,
Old Testament: German church view on, ♣
On the Jews and Their Lies (Luther), ♣
Operation Flash,
Operation Hummingbird. See Night of the
Long Knives
Order of Olga, ♣
Oster, Hans, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †- ‡,
P
Panzer divisions, ♣
Park Avenue Baptist Church, ♣
Parsifal (Wagner), ♣
Pastors’ Emergency League, ♣, ♦, ♥,
Petition to the Armed Forces (Perels and
Bonhoeffer), ♣
Petzel, Walter, (general), ♣
“Pfaffen,” ♣
Pfarrernotbund. See Pastors’ Emergency
League
Philip of Hesse (prince), ♣
Picasso, Pablo, ♣
Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio
[Collodi]), ♣
Poland: Hitler’s attack on, ♣, ♦,
atrocities in, ♣, ♦; surrender of
(in Warsaw), ♣
Poles: treatment after Germany’s defeat of,
Pomeranian Council of Brethren, ♣
“positive Christianity,” ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr., ♣
“Powers of Good” (Bonhoeffer poem),
Prayerbook of the Bible, The (Bonhoeffer),
Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin), ♣
Preuß, F. A., ♣
Priebe, Hermann (pastor), ♣
Prohibition (of alcohol), ♣
Protestantism, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠, †, ‡
Provisional Committee of the World
Council of Churches, ♣
Pünder, Hermann, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Q
“Question of the Boundaries of the Church
and Church Union, The,” (Bonhoeffer
R
RAF (Royal Air Force, Great Brit.), ♣
racism (in American South), ♣- ♦, ♥,
Rascher, Sigmund, ♣- ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
reason (e.g., rationality, logic), ♣, ♦
Reformation (Protestant), ♣, ♦, ♥,
Reich church (Reichskirche), ♣, ♦, ♥,
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main
Security Office). See RSHA
Reichstag (institution), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
of, ♣,
Reichstag building, ♣, ♦, ♥: burning of,
Reichstag fire trial, ♣
Reich Writers’ Guild, ♣
Religion and Philosophy in Germany (Heine),
“religionless Christianity,” ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠
Remarque, Erich Maria, ♣, ♦, ♥
Rembrandt, ♣
Resistance (against Germany). See German
Resistance
Rhineland Bible School, ♣
Riefenstahl, Leni, ♣
Rieger, Julius, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer), ♣
Roberts, David, ♣
Rockefeller Foundation, ♣
Roeder, Manfred, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠, †,
Roman Catholic Church, ♣, ♦, ♥
Rommel, General, ♣
Roosevelt, Franklin D., ♣, ♦, ♥
Rosenberg, Alfred, ♣, ♦, ♥- ♠, †
Rössler, Helmut, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †- ‡
Ruhr region, ♣
Rulamann, ♣
Russia: Germany’s declaration of war on,
♣; Germany’s defeat of Russia, ♦;
Germany’s retreat from, ♣; shell
attack by, ♣
S
SA Brownshirts, ♣
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, ♣,
Sack, Karl (judge), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
Sammelvikariat. See collective pastorates
Sanctorum Communio (Bonhoeffer, doctoral
dissertation), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡
Sanderhoff, Herr and Frau, ♣
Saüberung (cleansing), ♣
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand, ♣
Sayers, Dorothy, ♣
Schacht, Hjalmar, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Scheidt, Samuel, ♣
Schein, Johann, ♣
Schiller, Friedrich von, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von, ♣, ♦, ♥,
Schlatter, Adolf, ♣
Schlawe (S3awno, Middle Pomerania,
Schleicher, Hans-Walter, ♣
Schleicher, Renate, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
Schleicher, Rüdiger, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Schleicher, Ursula (Bonhoeffer), ♣, ♦, ♥,
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst, ♣,
Schlönwitz (underground seminary). See
Gross-Schlönwitz
Schmidhuber, Wilhelm, ♣
Schneider, Georg, ♣
Schneider, Paul, ♣
Schönes (neighbors of the Bonhoeffers),
Schönherr, Albert, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
Schönherr, Albrecht, ♣
Schroeder, Baron, ♣
Schulz, George, ♣
Schulze, Bertha, ♣
Schulze, Gerhard, ♣
Schumann, Clara, ♣
Schütz, Erwin, ♣
Schütz, Heinrich, ♣
Schutzstaffel. See SS
Schwäbisch Hall (German city), ♣
Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case, ♣
“separate, but equal,” ♣
separation of church and state (American),
“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” (Fosdick),
Shirer, William, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Sippach (chief guard at Buchenwald), ♣,
Sloane Fellowship, ♣
social Darwinism, ♣
Social Democrats, ♣
Spa (Belgium), ♣
Spartacists, ♣
clergy barred from serving in, ♣;
identification of, ♣; members
forbidden to attend church, ♣;
members required to resign from
leadership in religious organizations,
♣; murders by: in Lithuania, ♦;
in Poland), ♣; prison, ♦; rituals
of, ♣
“Statements About the Power of the Keys
and Church Discipline in the New
St. George’s Church (London), ♣
St. Peter’s Basilica, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Stab-in-the-Back Legend, ♣, ♦, ♥,
Staewen, Gertrud, ♣
“Stations on the Road to Freedom”
status confessionis (state of confession), ♣,
Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk Graf, ♣, ♦-
Stauffenberg, Nina von, ♣
Stauffenberg plot, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
stock market crash, ♣
Stoltenhoff, Ernst, ♣
Strauss, Richard, ♣
Streicher, Julius, ♣
Sturmabteilung (SA: “Storm troopers”), ♣
Sutz, Erwin, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡,
T
Tafel, Gottlob, ♣
Tegel military prison: Bonhoeffer’s first
days at, ♣- ♦; Bonhoeffer’s plan for
escape from, ♣- ♦; Bonhoeffer’s
reading at, ♣- ♦; Bonhoeffer’s
strategy while at, ♣- ♦; life at, ♥-
♣, visits by Maria at, ♦, ♥, ♠
T- ♣ euthanasia program (Action T4), ♦,
Thale (Germany), ♣
They Almost Killed Hitler (Schlabrendorff),
Third Reich: beginning of, ♣; “church”
newspaper of the, ♣; Jews
becoming subjects of the, ♣; two of
the most evil characters in the, ♣
Tholuck, Friedrich, ♣
Thomas (General, Bonhoeffer’s fellow
Thuringian Evangelical Church, ♣
Thursday Circle, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡,
Thyssen, Fritz, ♣
Times (London), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Treaty of Versailles, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡,
Tresckow, Gerhard, ♣
Tresckow, Henning von, ♣, ♦, ♥,
Trinity Church (Berlin), ♣
Tübingen (Germany), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †- ‡,
Tübingen (university). See University of
Tübingen
♣ July plot ( 1944). See Valkyrie
conspiracy; Stauffenberg plot
U
Ulex, Wilhelm (general), ♣
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), ♣
Union Theological Seminary, ♣, ♦,
United States: declaration of war against
Japan and Germany, ♣
University of Tübingen (aka Eberhard
Karls University, Tübingen), ♣, ♦,
U7 Unternehmen ♣. See Operation ♦
Valkyrie conspiracy, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
van der Lubbe, Marinus, ♣
Vermehren, Erich, ♣
Victor, Wilhelm. See Wied, Prince Victor zu
Victoria (Princess Royal), ♣
Visser ’t Hooft, Willem A., ♣, ♦, ♥,
Visser ’t Hooft, Frau, ♣
Volksgerichtshof. See People’s Court
vom Rath, Ernst, ♣
von Alvensleben, Werner, ♣, ♦, ♥
von Bismarck, Gottfried, ♣
von Bismarck, Hans-Otto, ♣
von Bismarck, Luitgard, ♣
von Bismarck, Otto ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
von Bismarck, Ruth-Alice (von
von Blomberg, Werner (field marshal), ♣
von Cramon, Moni, ♣
von dem Bussche, Axel, ♣
von der Goltz, Rüdiger Graf (general), ♣
von der Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof, ♣- ♦
von Dohnanyi. See Dohnanyi (individual
family members)
von Falkenhausen Alexander, ♣, ♦,
von Gersdorff, Rudolf-Christoph, ♣- ♦
von Haeften, Werner, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠,
von Hase, Clara (née Countess Kalkreuth),
von Hase, Hans-Christoph, ♣, ♦
von Hase, Elizabeth, ♣
von Hase, Karl Alfred, ♣, ♦, ♥
von Hase, Karl August, ♣, ♦, ♥- ♠, †,
von Hase, Paul, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
von Hassell, Ulrich, ♣
von Kleist-Retzow, Hans Jürgen, ♣, ♦
von Kleist-Retzow, Hans-Friedrich, ♣,
von Kleist-Retzow, Ruth, ♣- ♦, ♥,
von Küchler, Georg, ♣
von Petersdorff (Bonhoeffer’s fellow
von Rad, Gerhard, ♣
von Rundstedt, Gerd (field marshal), ♣
von Schlabrendorff, Fabian, ♣, ♦, ♥,
von Wedemeyer, Hans, ♣, ♦- ♥, ♠,
von Wedemeyer, Hans-Werner, ♣
von Wedemeyer, Maria, ♣, ♦, ♥,
von Wedemeyer, Max, ♣, ♦, ♥ , ♠,
von Wedemeyer, Ruth, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠,
von Wedemeyer, Ruth-Alice. See von
Bismarck, Ruth-Alice
von Welczeck, Johannes, ♣
von Zedlitz-Trützschler, Count and
Countess, ♣
W-Y
Wagner, Cosima, ♣
Wagner, Richard, ♣
Waldau (Germany), ♣
Wangenheimstrasse, Bonhoeffer family
home at ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇,
War Ministry: abolition of, ♣
Wartburg castle (Thuringia, Germany),
“weaker brethren” argument, ♣, ♦
Wedding (Berlin): confirmation class at,
Wehrle (Fr.), ♣
Weimar Republic, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Weltanschauung (worldview). See German
Weltanschauung
Wells, H. G., ♣
Wesley, John, ♣
Wessel, Horst, ♣
Wessel, Wilhelm, ♣
“What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth?
“What is the church?” (question pondered
by Bonhoeffer), ♣- ♦, ♥, ♠, †,
Wied, Victor zu (Wilhelm Friedrich
Adolph Hermann Victor, prince to
Wied). ♣
Wilhelm ♣ (German emperor), ♦, ♥,
Wilhelmstrasse (Berlin street), ♣
Will to Power, The (Nietzsche), ♣
Winant, John Gilbert, ♣
Wittenberg: national synod at, ♣, ♦
Wittenberg castle church, ♣
Wobbermin, Georg, ♣
Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), ♣, ♦, ♥,
World Council of Churches, ♣
World War I. See First War
World War II: beginning of, ♣; end of,
Württemberg (Germany), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (Low Church
Anglican community), ♣
Yorck von Wartenburg, Hans Ludwig
(Count), ♣
Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter, ♣, ♦- ♥,
Young Reformation movement, ♣, ♦,
Z Zdroje
Zdroje (Poland). See Finkenwalde
Zimmermann, Wolf-Dieter, ♣- ♦, ♥-
Zingst, ♣- ♦: end of golden era at, ♥.
See also Zingst and Finkenwalde
Zingst and Finkenwalde: daily routine at,
♣- ♦; illegal seminaries of: ♥, ♠,
at, ♣
Zinn, Elizabeth, ♣- ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡,
Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Nikolaus
Zionskirche, ♣
Zweig, Stefan, ♣