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To: Partisan Gunslinger
It wasn't Luther's writings that caused the Holocaust. You're being silly. Luther's book on this fell into obscurity in the centuries leading up to Hitler, it was not the manifesto of antiSemitism. There were plenty of Germans (and popes, as my quotes show) that were thinking the same on their own on this.

Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the sixteenth-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst’s study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther’s texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a “de-Judaized” form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther’s anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.

You have still not sourced your quotes.

450 posted on 03/28/2016 8:55:35 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
Hitler and the Nazis hated Christians as well. It's well-known they were into the Tibet religions. Luther had no effect on the hierarchy of the Nazis.

You have still not sourced your quotes.

Well, one of the worst was Julius III. An account of his Nazi-like order to burn Jewish property is in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia pp391-392.

Should pope Julius III be declared an anti-pope for his Nazi-like order that put such suffering on the Jews?

451 posted on 03/28/2016 9:19:29 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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