But Bonhoeffer was determined. As he wrote to Niebuhr, “I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.”12 He would pay the ultimate price for practicing the costly grace that he preached: he was arrested for participating in a foiled assassination attempt on Hitler and was hanged on April 9, 1945, at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
