"One of Delp’s sayings, I think, stands as a call to action even today, and I used it as the epigraph for the book: “How do we represent our beliefs? Merely as system - or as glowing fire?”
German Jesuit Father Alfred Delp worked to mobilize mass support for a post-Nazi government. To that end, Delp organized resistance cells among former leaders of Catholic labor unions. Most fatefully, however, Delp was also a liaison to Colonel Stauffenberg - and met with him on D-Day to discuss Hitler’s removal.

After Stauffenberg’s plot failed, the SS printed a wanted poster for Delp and other German Jesuits involved in the plot. Delp kept a pistol in his rectory drawer, and had a plan to escape through a secret door in the rectory wall, but the SS arrested him one day after he said Mass. In February 1945 they hanged him.

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