ABSTRACT
Hans-Bernd von Haeften was born in Berlin, the son of an army officer. In 1933 he entered the German Foreign Service and served in Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna and Bucharest. Haeften had in the past worked with the Berneuchen circle in their efforts to revive interest in the Church, and after his return to Berlin began to take part in the deliberations of the Kreisau circle. But at such points of intersection, which may be more or less obvious, critical, or decisive, Episcopate does expect the Church to watch in silence without lifting a finger. When the Christian peoples are beset by the madness of political demons, as they are today, the Church must be heard in public and must bear witness the whole world. The Gestapo had meanwhile taken his wife away from her five children, youngest a baby, and she like women and children of the men who took part in the revolt was held for several weeks.
