[Gamecock]

Learned it from his Catholic masters. At least he didn’t torture them.

[Lee N. Field]

As long as every person wasn’t a Jew. He hated Jews and wanted them all dead. He was perhaps one of the biggest Jew haters of all time. --overwatcher

As long as every person wasn’t a Jew. He hated Jews and wanted them all dead. He was perhaps one of the biggest Jew haters of all time. --Gamecock

Carl Trueman dedicated a full lecture to this, in his Westminster Seminary lectures on Reformation history.

The upshot: "the ordinary does not require explaination". A worn and somewhat embittered Luther at the end of his life shared the common antisemitism of his era. It is the attitude of the younger Luther ("That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew") that requires explanation.