With
bound hands a jesuit in nazi germany
The Life and Selected Prison Letters of Alfred Delp
mary frances coady
© 2003 Mary Frances Coady All rights reserved Letters from Alfred Delp, Gesammelte Schriften, Band IV © Verlag Josef Knecht Carolusdruckerei, Frankfurt am Main 1985. Letters from Letters to Freya 1939–1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, copyright © 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Quotations from The Imitation of Christ are taken from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, translated by Leo Sherley-Price (London: Penguin, 1952). Used by permission of Penguin Group UK. Excerpts from “Hitler Laws Affect Jesuits” and “A Martyr’s Voice” by Lucia Simpson Shen reprinted by permission of America Press. All rights reserved. Used with permission. www.americamagazine.org The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1993 and 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover photo: Alfred Delp before People’s Court of the Third Reich, January 1945. Courtesy of the Archives of the Upper German Province of the Society of Jesus (Archivum Monacense SJ), Munich. Cover and interior design by Megan Duffy Rostan Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coady, Mary Frances. With bound hands : a Jesuit in Nazi Germany : the life and selected prison letters of Alfred Delp / Mary Frances Coady. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 10: 0-8294-1794-X ISBN 13: 978-0-8294-1794-4 1. Delp, Alfred. 2. Jesuits—Germany—Biography. I. Delp, Alfred. Correspondence. English. Selections. II. Title. BX4705.D422C63 2003 271’.5302—dc21 2003008149 Printed in the United States of America RRD 2015