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Historians debate the impact Luther's writings may have had on German thought leading into the [[Nazi]] [[Holocaust]] of World War II. Luther harshly criticized many peoples in addition to Jews; a pamphlet of his in 1545, the year before he died, was entitled "Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil." It is also recorded that at a round table discussion he said he believed in burning witches. Some of Luther's writings seem quite vulgar by today's standards, but much of it was also in response to vulgar accusations against his religious views.
Historians debate the impact Luther's writings may have had on German thought leading into the [[Nazi]] [[Holocaust]] of World War II. Luther harshly criticized many peoples in addition to Jews; a pamphlet of his in 1545, the year before he died, was entitled "Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil." It is also recorded that at a round table discussion he said he believed in burning witches. Some of Luther's writings seem quite vulgar by today's standards, but much of it was also in response to vulgar accusations against his religious views.
==Nazis inspired==
Already in 1945, decades begore haters sought to rewrite history l, it was pointed out, the simple truth: <ref>Wiener, P. F. (1945). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martin_Luther_Hitler_s_Spiritual_Ancesto/axqwvgEACAAJ?hl=en Martin Luther, Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor]. United Kingdom: Hutchinson.</ref> 'Martin Luther, Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor.'
Indeed, The line of "anti-semitic descent" from Luther to Hitler is "easy to draw."The line of "anti-semitic descent" from Luther to Hitler is "easy to draw."<ref>Dawidowicz, L. S. (1986). ''The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945''. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group, p. 23</ref>
In November 1933, the Nazis marked the 450th anniversary of Luther's birth with a nationwide “German Luther Day.” Party leaders praised Luther's [[Antisemitism]].
<ref>(October 20, 2017). [https://forward.com/fast-forward/385670/how-nazis-used-martin-luthers-virulent-anti-semitism/ How Nazis Used Martin Luther’s Virulent Anti-Semitism]. ''Forward''</ref>
Professor R. Steigmann-Gall:<ref>Steigmann-Gall, R. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RreXLeUG_AIC&pg=PA154 ''The Holy Reich : Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.'' United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 145].</ref>
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All who insisted they or their movement were Christian in the Kampfzeit maintained this attitude afterward. As Goebbels affirmed in his dairy in 1937, even in private Hitler continued to gain inspiration from Christ, who, like Hitler, "was also against Jewish world domination."...
Although Nazi leaders like Frick, Buch, Koch , Rust, and Schemm all freely associated Luther with Nazism, none of [[Christianity]]'s antagonists in the party - Himmler and Ley most notably felt obligated to publicly praise Luther for the sake of expediency . Their private hostility was matched by public silence. Even Rosenberg, who meticulously detached Luther from Lutheran Christianity, made no appearance at the Luther festivities, presumably because he found them too ecclesiastical. Another limit to the interconfessionalism of positive Christianity was the party's church policy.
Relations with the Catholic Church were never warm, despite several points of ideological contact: Whereas Catholics tended to reject Nazi racial theory, in almost all instances Nazis rejected Catholic internationalism. On the other hand, many Nazis proclaimed an affinity for Protestantism.</blockquote>
German Thomas Kaufmann notes:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bd3XDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1 Kaufmann, T. (2016). ''Luther's Jews: A Journey Into Anti-Semitism''. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford].</ref>
"Church leaders such as provincial bishop Martin Sasse of Thuringia referred to Luther's hostility towards the Jews to justify their enthusiasm for the burning of Jewish synagogues during the Reich 'Night of Broken Glass' [Kristallnacht] on 9/10 November 1938; his polemical pamphlet Martin Luther on the Jews: Away with Them!, which was published in a print run of 100,000 copies, contained amongst other things a compilation of quotations from On the Jews and their Lies and may well have been one of the most effective vehicles for the dissemination of the image of Luther as an 'anti-Semite for our time'. By drawing on Luther, leading voices from the Church and theological circles were demonstrating that Protestant Christianity could be adapted to fit in with the ideological Zeitgeist that was remaking politics and society and moulding them to an ideology based on race and German ethnicity and could make its own contribution to the 'anti-Semitism required today for the good of our nation', as the Church historian Erich Vogelsang put it."
But he argues that the anti Jewish '''Martin Luther was not about 'race.''''
Nevertheless, he writes:
"What is evident is that Protestant theologians with Nazi sympathies or 'lay people' with a Lutheran background were not only among those who made the reformer out to be complicit in the most gruesome crimes in human history but were primarily responsible for doing so. Admittedly, the really 'tragic' aspect of this is precisely that Luther's own writings, his repellent, hate - filled tirades against the Jews, made the task easy. Luther is no more a simple 'victim' in this process than he deserved to be in the dock at Nuremberg. Luther's hatred of the Jews."
==Legacy==
==Legacy==