sentences:  In his suicide note he wrote of a "feigned deep peace, which had also intruded Christianity" in East Germany while in truth there was "a mighty war between light and darkness"("zwischen Licht und Finsternis ein mächtiger Krieg").Brüsewitz died of his severe burns on August 22, 1976 in a hospital in Halle Dölau.His self-sacrifice brought support from both his parishioners and figures in the church and led to a reappraisal within the church hierarchy of its relationship with the Communist dictatorship.