Would Killing Hitler have saved lives? What if a worse communist leader had taken over? What if The new ruler had not forced so many Jewish scientists to flee Germany? What if they helped this new Red German and built an atomic bomb for the People’s Republic of Germany—and used it? The deaths might have been worse. It is all speculation but not a wise one if used to Assassinate Trump or any ruler.
Yes, it would have.
The Communists had more than enough faults, but they would, had they come to power (which wouldn’t have been too likely, since they had never been able to garner more than 16.9 per cent of the national vote, and often significantly less), they would have been against the war, and against genocide.
Had the hellhound been killed and his reign of terror collapsed, the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Catholic Centre Party, and last but not least, the Social Democrats, would have had to work out a compromise how to shape the nation‘s political future. They together would have been the majority against the extremists.
But to everyone in the resistance, no matter where, it was clear that peace was the first goal, for better or worse for Germany. There was nobody among them who thought that the war was winnable- no backstab legend this time 😉
Only a handful, rather naively, hoped for the best outcome of a future peace conference - it was more of a „God have mercy on us“ moment - but we shall, sadly, never know…but everything would have been better than what really happened 🙁
And about the atom bomb: America deployed so many resources to its development that the German efforts looked puny besides. Furthermore, there was no way in the Forties that a German bomb could have struck America, atomic or not. Germany had neither intercontinental ballistic rockets nor bombers suitable for such a task.