 Delp wrote on the same day, “It was too much, what a fulfillment, I prayed for it so much, I gave my life away.My chains are now without any meaning, because God found me worthy of the 'Vincula amoris' (chains of love)”.He was tried, together with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Franz Sperr, and Eugen Gerstenmaier, before the People's Court ("Volksgerichtshof") on 9–11 January 1945, with Roland Freisler presiding.