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. ...
To Luise Oestreicher Dear Luise, By now you know how it went. You’ll have received my letter of Thursday, which I expected to be the last day of my life. How long I’ll be waiting here now, and if and when I’ll be killed, I don’t know. ...
To A. Dear Friend, may I call you that? Here before the threshold, matters and relationships come into clearer focus, and what is real and valid actually dares to reveal itself. The extent to which we have been placed on shaky and unsteady ground is the extent...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Punder (written on a laundry note) Thanks for everything. I don’t know whether I should make an appeal for clemency myself, since I’m personally so hated. It has to be strongly emphasized that according to the findings of the People’s Court, I had nothing...
On January 11, the death sentence was pronounced for Delp, Moltke and Sperr. The prisoners were sent back to Tegel Prison, rather than the execution chamber, and Delp began to hope that perhaps the verdict might be overturned. Delp also learned that on January 11, the day...
[caption id="attachment_629" align="alignleft" width="229"] Helmuth von Moltke[/caption] The second day of the trial in the People's Court. Helmuth von Moltke stood trial on this day, and according to a letter from Delp to Tattenbach, "Moltke was also given dreadful abuse because of his association with the Church and the Jesuits. ...
On the morning of January 9, 1945, Alfred Delp was brought before the People's Court with five others, including Helmuth von Moltke. The rumors Delp had heard about the president of the People's Court, Roland Freisler, were correct. He not only hated priests, he considered...
Delp's trial was now set for January 9 and 10, 1945. To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Good people, So it’s next Tuesday and Wednesday. But I’ll probably leave on Monday, so I’ll say Mass beforehand. It would still be important for me to find out whether Tatt...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Good people, so now it’s a matter of praying, praying and trusting. We mustn’t be niggardly and petty toward God, either in giving or in asking and expecting. I’ve just now heard, for my greater “reassurance”, that Freisler [the president...
"Darkness shall not frighten us nor distress wear us out; we will go on waiting, watching and praying until the star rises." ---from Alfred Delp's Christmas meditation, 1944 After several postponements, the date for Delp's trial had been fixed at January 9. He was to be...