Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Dinner

[Judas Maccabeus]

He had a manifesto, and doesn't appear to have been aiming to do that. His manifesto reveals he seemed to see himself as some kind of modern-day Bonhoeffer.

Bonhoeffer died a martyr at Flossenburg concentration camp.

I'm referring to his assassination attempt.

Bonhofer did not assinate Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg did. Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot. His role was to help reform the "destroyed" German church. He likely did not know the details of the actual attempt.

[JohnH]

Bonhoeffer died a martyr at Flossenburg concentration camp.

I'm referring to his assassination attempt.

Bonhofer did not assinate Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg did. Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot. His role was to help reform the "destroyed" German church. He likely did not know the details of the actual attempt.

I am surprised to learn that Hitler was assassinated.

[Judas Maccabeus]

I'm referring to his assassination attempt.

Bonhofer did not assinate Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg did. Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot. His role was to help reform the "destroyed" German church. He likely did not know the details of the actual attempt.

I am surprised to learn that Hitler was assassinated.

He was not killed, it was an attempt. Unfortunately the attempt to blow him up failed because von Staffenburg put his briefcase bomb on the wrong side of a column, the column saved Hitler.

[barnhart]

...Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot...

As I understand it there isn't even actual evidence of that level of involvement. Only the word of his biographer who might have been motivated after the war to play up his resistance credentials.

[JohnH]

...Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot...

As I understand it there isn't even actual evidence of that level of involvement. Only the word of his biographer who might have been motivated after the war to play up his resistance credentials.

Nonetheless, he wrote extensively about how sometimes assassinating someone is OK if they are evil enough; in essence, he argued against nonresistance.

[Judas Maccabeus]

...Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot...

As I understand it there isn't even actual evidence of that level of involvement. Only the word of his biographer who might have been motivated after the war to play up his resistance credentials.

Nonetheless, he wrote extensively about how sometimes assassinating someone is OK if they are evil enough; in essence, he argued against nonresistance.

All Lutherans of the period would have argues against nonresistence, as would Bonhoeffer. He is, in fact, a Lutheran.

The only ones that might argue for nonresistance are the Laestadian Lutheran Church, and that is iffy.

[Judas Maccabeus]

...Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot...

As I understand it there isn't even actual evidence of that level of involvement. Only the word of his biographer who might have been motivated after the war to play up his resistance credentials.

I would tend to disagree, to a point. He was, in fact, involved in planning for the day after Hitler dies. As to the actual plot, he likely did not know what was going on.

[Bootstrap]

I am surprised to learn that Hitler was assassinated.

Well, there is that Quentin Tarantino movie ...

[JohnH]

Nonetheless, he wrote extensively about how sometimes assassinating someone is OK if they are evil enough; in essence, he argued against nonresistance.

All Lutherans of the period would have argues against nonresistence, as would Bonhoeffer. He is, in fact, a Lutheran.

The only ones that might argue for nonresistance are the Laestadian Lutheran Church, and that is iffy.

Hence why I am often puzzled why some Anabaptists look up to him as some kind of thinker on nonresistance; one of the defining characteristics of nonresistance is that we don't go and kill evil people and otherwise use force to do things that are obviously good.

[barnhart]

...Bonhoeffer was only a small bit player in the plot...

As I understand it there isn't even actual evidence of that level of involvement. Only the word of his biographer who might have been motivated after the war to play up his resistance credentials.

I would tend to disagree, to a point. He was, in fact, involved in planning for the day after Hitler dies. As to the actual plot, he likely did not know what was going on.

He left a lot of writing and he seemed to have shifted at times which makes him sort of a Rorschach inkblot character. People see in him what they came looking for.