| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface to the First English Edition | p. xiii |
| Portrait | p. xvii |
| Abbreviations | p. xix |
| The Lure of Theology | |
| Childhood and Youth: 1906-1923 | p. 3 |
| Ancestors | p. 3 |
| Parents' Home in Breslau | p. 13 |
| Berlin | p. 21 |
| The Decision to Become a Theologian | p. 34 |
| Student Years: 1923-1927 | p. 45 |
| Family | p. 45 |
| Tubingen | p. 47 |
| Rome | p. 56 |
| Berlin | p. 65 |
| Dissertation | p. 77 |
| Seminar Essays | p. 85 |
| First Ties to a Regional Church | p. 91 |
| Assistant Pastor in Barcelona: 1928 | p. 97 |
| Selecting a Post as Vicar | p. 98 |
| The Country | p. 100 |
| The Parish | p. 105 |
| Plans for the Future | p. 120 |
| Assistant Lecturer in Berlin: 1929-1930 | p. 125 |
| Postdoctoral Work | p. 128 |
| Family and Friends | p. 137 |
| American Plans | p. 142 |
| America: 1930-1931 | p. 147 |
| The Country | p. 148 |
| Friends | p. 152 |
| Union Theological Seminary | p. 156 |
| The Return Home | p. 166 |
| The Cost of Being a Christian | |
| Lecturer and Pastor: 1931-1932 | p. 173 |
| Bonn | p. 175 |
| Catechism | p. 186 |
| Cambridge | p. 189 |
| The Transition from Theologian to Christian | p. 202 |
| The University | p. 207 |
| The Church | p. 221 |
| Ecumenism | p. 238 |
| Berlin: 1933 | p. 257 |
| February: Controlled Chaos | p. 259 |
| March: Hitler's Laws | p. 263 |
| April: The German Christians | p. 268 |
| May: The Young Reformation Movement | p. 279 |
| June: The State Commissar | p. 283 |
| July: Church Elections | p. 293 |
| August: The Bethel Confession | p. 300 |
| September: The Aryan Clause | p. 304 |
| London: 1933-1935 | p. 325 |
| Parish Minister | p. 328 |
| First Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1933-1934 | p. 334 |
| George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester | p. 354 |
| Fano | p. 372 |
| Second Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1934-1935 | p. 392 |
| Plans | p. 406 |
| Preachers' Seminary: 1935 | p. 419 |
| The Seminaries | p. 419 |
| Zingst and Finkenwalde | p. 424 |
| The Syllabus | p. 441 |
| The House of Brethren | p. 460 |
| The Ecumenical World | p. 472 |
| The Steglitz Resolutions | p. 486 |
| Finkenwalde: 1936-1937 | p. 493 |
| The Fifth Implementation Decree | p. 495 |
| The Journey to Sweden | p. 506 |
| The Essay on Church-Community | p. 517 |
| The Memorandum to Hitler | p. 531 |
| "Service to Others" | p. 539 |
| Chamby, 1936 | p. 546 |
| The Last Year in Finkenwalde | p. 561 |
| The End of Finkenwalde | p. 577 |
| The Collective Pastorates: 1938-1940 | p. 587 |
| The Backwoods of Pomerania | p. 588 |
| The Low Point of the Church Struggle | p. 596 |
| Legalization | p. 607 |
| The Lure of the Political Realm | p. 620 |
| England: March and April 1939 | p. 635 |
| America: June and July 1939 | p. 648 |
| The War | p. 662 |
| Christian and Man for His Times | p. 676 |
| Sharing Germany's Destiny | |
| Travels: 1940-1943 | p. 681 |
| Section One: The Church | p. 686 |
| The Confessing Church during the War | p. 686 |
| Professional Problems | p. 695 |
| Theology | p. 705 |
| Section Two: The Conspiracy | p. 722 |
| The First Stage: Information, Spring 1941 | p. 724 |
| The Second Stage: Peace Aims, Autumn 1941 | p. 734 |
| The Third Stage: Information on the Coup, 1942 | p. 752 |
| The Arrest | p. 780 |
| The Engagement | p. 787 |
| The "Borderline Case" | p. 791 |
| Tegel: 1943-1944 | p. 799 |
| The Trial of Hans von Dohnanyi | p. 800 |
| The Investigation of Bonhoeffer | p. 810 |
| The Cell in Tegel | p. 828 |
| The New Theology | p. 853 |
| In the Custody of the State: 1944-1945 | p. 893 |
| Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse | p. 894 |
| Buchenwald | p. 918 |
| Flossenburg | p. 921 |
| The Bitter End | p. 928 |
| The Zossen Files | p. 935 |
| Bonhoeffer's Readings in Prison | p. 943 |
| Notes | p. 947 |
| Chronology | p. 1025 |
| Index | p. 1029 |
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