The night before he was scheduled to die at Brandenburg-Görden prison, Bernhard Grimm received a visit from the prison chaplain, Dr Werner Jentsch. Afterwards, in the stillness of the night, the 19-year-old wrote his farewell letter to his mother and brother, telling them about ‘a Protestant Pastor who visited me [and] referred to the Old Testament as a history book of the Jews and the exegesis of Revelation as a very dangerous story and put the Day of Judgement off into the unknown future’.
