Dachau

Christian Reger was a minister in the Confessing Church in Germany in the years leading up to World War II. Because of the church's stance against the ruling Nazi regime, Reger and other Confessing Church ministers, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, were imprisoned by the Nazis. Reger, in fact, was betrayed and handed over to the Nazis by his own church's organist.

Christian Reger was imprisoned by the Nazis from 1941 to 1945 at the notorious Dachau concentration camp, located outside of Munich, Germany. The daily horror of life in a concentration camp was enough to cripple the faith and quench the spirit of most people.

But Christian Reger was not like most people.

In Philip Yancey's book, entitled "Where Is God When It Hurts?", Yancey writes the following about Reger:

"Christian Reger will tell the horror stories if you ask. But he will never stop there. He goes on to share his faith - how at Dachau, he was visited by a God who loves."

"Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life," Christian Reger told Philip Yancey. "But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater."

"I learned to know the Who of my life."

"He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still."