Alfred Delp was taken to the execution chamber of Plotzensee Prison and hanged about 3 o-clock in the afternoon of February 2, 1945. Hitler had ordered that the ashes of those executed for resistance be scattered over sewage. This is probably what happened to Delp's...
On January 31, 1945, Alfred Delp was driven to Plotzensee Prison where his street clothes were exchanged for the prisoner's striped clothing. He took nothing with him from his Tegel cell except his rosary. At Plotzensee he asked the chaplain for a copy of The Imitation...
To Franz von Tattenbach SJ Dear Tatt, This week has been the hardest of all these many weeks...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Up to now there’s one obvious purpose. Help with further prayers. In Georg’s last letter there’s a possible way to get a go-between with Munich. Otherwise Alfred Sebastian’s father can help. To Franz von Tattenbach SJ Dear Tatt, This week has been the hardest of...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Good people, [caption id="attachment_629" align="alignright" width="229"] Helmuth von Moltke[/caption] Yesterday and today have been really bad days. It would have been easier to go to Plötzensee than to suddenly be forced to endure the fate of isolation. This vacation from the gallows...
On January 23 Delp learned that Moltke and Sperr had been taken to Plὂtzensee and hanged. To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Thanks for everything. God will find a solution. Pray. Tell Tattenbach that Strassenberger is a classmate of Heinrich [Himmler] and his brother. I’m praying for Pünder. God...
To Marianne Hapig/Marianne Pünder Good people, Heartfelt thanks for your trouble and worry on my behalf. I’m now sitting at the pinnacle of absolute abandonment and waiting on God. At last, all the cards have been taken out of my hands. Before the trial, we still thought...
As he sat waiting in his cell, Delp’s creative energies were again released and he wrote meditations on the Lord’s Prayer which, as he told Luise, was written almost entirely in handcuffs, and “Come Holy Spirit”, which is the Sequence for Pentecost Sunday. To Marianne Hapig/Marianne...
To Luise Oestreicher Dear Luise, I’m still alive and still writing letters. I feel your help a lot, and I still don’t know if this is the end or if God wants only to test my confidence to the limit. I’m trying hard to be equal to...
To Marianne Häpig and Marianne Pünder Good people, a heartfelt Sunday greeting! In the normal course of events, I should have been greeting you from the Other Side now. Everything is happening in such a strange way. Everything we do to help matters along ends in disaster. ...