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He penned some harsh rhetoric towards the Jewish community. What his actual wishes were, are not so clear (he was prone to heated hyperbole and once wrote that he wished churchgoers who could not appreciate music in worship would be imprisoned in silence). However those writings lived on and were used by Hitler, among others, as excuses for actual ghastly treatment of actual Jews.

He penned some harsh rhetoric towards the Jewish community. What his actual wishes were, are not so clear

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Near death, he still wrote to his wife, conspiring how he might betray Jewish refugees as outlaws. Do you not know what it meant for you and your family to be declared outlaws ? You could be robbed, your wife and daughters raped, tortured, and murdered with impunity, as Islam does today to non Muslims. The parable of the sheep and goats is staring at us. The Nazis loved their wives and children as well as Luther.

On the 28th the party crossed the Saale, and passed on to Eisleben with a cavalry guard of honor, through the little village of Rixdorf inhabited by the Jews. From Eisleben Luther wrote often to his wife, the most beautiful letters he ever penned, full of affection, trust, and gentle humor. In spite of his approaching end his good spirits seem to have come back to him. TO CATHARINE LUTHER AT WITTENBERG (eislebbn,) February 1, 1546. I wish you grace and peace in Christ, and send you my poor, old, infirm love. Dear Katie, I was weak on the road to Eisleben, but that was my own fault. Had you been with me you would have said it was the fault of the Jews or of their God. For we had to pass through a village hard by Eisleben where many Jews live; perhaps they blew on me too hard. (In the city of Eisleben there are at this hour fifty Jewish residents.) As I drove through the village such a cold wind blew from behind through my cap on my head that it was like to turn my brain to ice. This may have helped my vertigo, but now, thank God, I am so well that I am sore tempted by fair women and care not how gallant I am. When the chief matters are settled, I must devote myself to driving out the Jews. Count Albert is hostile to them, and has given them their deserts, but no one else has. God willing, I will help Count Albert from the pulpit. I drink Neunburger beer of just that flavor which you praised so much at Mansf eld. It pleases me well and acts as a laxative. Your little sons went to Mansfeld day before yesterday, after they had humbly begged Jack-an-apes1 to take them. I don't know what they are doing; if it were cold they might freeze, but as it is warm they may do or suffer what they like. God bless you with all my household and remember me to my table companions. Your old lover, M. L.