It is hard to imagine the conditions that Dietrich Bonhoeffer faced in the Tegel prison…
That people he did not know who were hostile to his way of thinking, now had the power to decide what happened to him was hard to bear.
He had known handcuffs only from the cinema; now they were put on him whenever he was taken from his cell to Roeder's interrogations in the War Court.
One of the guards called him a "scoundrel", and it was all so unaccustomed and humiliating that during the first phase of the interrogations Bonhoeffer must have been going through "prison shock".
Roeder knew how to exploit this condition, which made the situation more dangerous!
(Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, 324)
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