![]() ![]() The first night I could sleep very little because a prisoner in the next cell wept loudly for several hours. ![]() The sound of the prison staff’s vile abuse of the men who were held for investigation penetrated into my cell for the first time since then, I have heard it every day from morning to night. Next morning a piece of bread was thrown into my cell I had to pick it up from the floor. The blankets on the camp bed had such a foul smell that in spite of the cold it was impossible to use them. ![]() For the first night I was locked up in a holding cell. The formalities of admission were correctly completed. A bourgeois German and erudite theologian who found fulfillment among the lowest of the low, he experienced the stupendous simplification of dying on a scaffold like his Master. In April, 1943, a Lutheran pastor was imprisoned on charges of helping to plot a murder. This piece, excerpted from the book A Third Testament, is based on a 1974 CBC television series by the same name. ![]()
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