Do you think Bonhoeffer helped Germany by trying to assassinate Hitler?

Question

He was unsuccessful, of course, and was tortured for his part in the plot. Was this a worthy statement of resistance from the highest religious authority in pre-war Germany that helped post-war Germany?

Or could he have better served Germany by staying in New York where he had left shortly before the outbreak of WWII, to return to help reconstruct Germany and German Lutheranism?
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I am assuming Germany would have lost WWII unconditionally either way. By helping Germany, I mean in a moral and spiritual sense.
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Answer 1

Whether one agrees with his actions or not, Dietrich Bonhoeffer deserves some credit for at least trying to do something about a horrible situation. Sitting in one's armchair from a distance making academic theological pronouncements while others are suffering isn't necessarily the best course of action (because it isn't action at all). Sometimes direct involvement, such of that taken by Bonhoeffer, Nikolaus Gross, and many others, is understandable.

Answer 2

I think everybody was too late on the uptake with Germany.
The same problems that led to the WW I were never solved and led to the bigger and better WW II.
Germany was the economic and the military world power. By 1932 Russia was becoming a real challenge to that position. In the mid thirties Russias economy was growing atover 10% a year. Kind of like modern China. Everybody considered Russias military to be antiquated and weak. By the end of WW II Russia had produced the most tanks and they (T-34) were the most advanced of any of them.

Would the plan of the Boenhoffer group have made things better by killing Hitler near the end of WW II?
I doubt it. They would not likely have been able to salvage anything from the wreckage by proposing a peace treaty at that time. Germany had already lost the war with Russia and at that point it is doubtful if anybody would have been able to fight Russia even if they joined forces with Germany. When Russia reentered Poland the partition of Germany was a forgone conclusion and the only reason for the race to Berlin was to try to claim as much territory against the Soviets as possible for the Western Powers (NATO) in Europe.
Even if Hitler had died in the blast the Nazi Party and Germany would have still had to fight the war out to the end.

Answer 3

He helped us understand that theres more to life than having your own glory..