[safisoft]

But a lot of anti-Semitism in that time was simply reflexive and largely political, not personal. If a hungry Jewish guy showed up at Luther's door, I'm pretty sure he would have taken him in and given him a meal.

Earlier in his life, yes. However when he wrote, "Jews and Their Lies" he was especially bitter toward Jews. He assumed that when he broke with Rome, Jews would flock to Protestantism. Reading Luther's "Jews and Their Lies" is a chilling bit of prophecy of the "Final Solution."

[AnAmericanMother]

Luther did get cranky in his old age, but he always went overboard in his writings - I'm thinking of his nuking of the general area regarding the book of James . . . .

He would have been as horrified as you and I at the Nazis, they were antithetical to everything he believed.

[AnAmericanMother]

But let us return to our onions -- it isn't often that you can pinpoint a total change in public attitude to a single year and a single event. But that's what happened with the Catholic Church and Der Stellvertreter. And if the Stasi had a hand in it, it's false to the core.