Dietrich Bonhoeffer made a very large impact on the war against the Nazis during World War II. Bonhoeffer was involved in a conspiracy group against Hitler and they planned to assassinate him. This decision is very controversial, because Bonhoeffer was a firm believer in Jesus Christ. Christians will sometimes argue that assassination is always wrong because it is planned out murder.
I believe that the plotting to kill Hitler was not necessarily Biblical, but necessary. I believe that if Hitler would have been killed, his entire empire of Nazis would crumble because of lack of strong leadership. Hitler was essentially a dictator, who ruled without mercy. If he would have been killed, then there probably would have been a struggle for power from the high up leaders in Hitler’s army which could have caused a civil war.
In former military situations, when the leader has been killed either in battle or by assassination, the people beneath that persons command tend to be chaotic and don’t know what to do. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, being the brilliant man that he was, would have most likely taken that fact into consideration when he was thinking about joining the conspiracy against Hitler.
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