Besides, there are contradictory memories. As mentioned earlier, Paul Lehmann reported that Bonhoeffer had reaffirmed his commitment to pacifism in the summer of 1939, just before he set sail to return to Germany. Emmi Bonhoeffer, one of Dietrich’s sisters-in-law, recounts a conversation she had with him sometime after he had returned to Germany in 1939: “How is that with you Christians?” she asks. “You will not kill but that another one does it, you agree and are glad about it. Why is that?” Dietrich responds: “One should not be glad. But I understand what you mean.”
