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Gerhard Kittel (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite who wrote [[Nazi]]-influenced nonsense about Christianity.  Until his disclosure of or conversion to [[anti-Semitism]], he had been a well respected scholar.  He was so well-respected that secular and Christian [[Liberals]] within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen published work on Kittel in 1985, four decades after the Reich's fall<ref> ''Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch'', Robert P. Ericksen, Yale University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-300-02926-8</ref>.  

Gerhard Kittel (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite who wrote [[Nazi]]-influenced nonsense about Christianity.  Until his disclosure of or conversion to [[anti-Semitism]], he had been a well respected scholar.  He was so well-respected that secular and Christian [[Liberals]] within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen published work on Kittel in 1985, four decades after the Reich's fall<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=icUf4Ttg_6EC ''Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch''], Robert P. Ericksen, Yale University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-300-02926-8</ref>.  

*After the publication of Kittel's anti-Semitic views, the great Jewish theologian [[Martin Buber]] acknowledged that his views were the "ruling ideas" but told him "What I did not know is that you shared them."

*After the publication of Kittel's anti-Semitic views, the great Jewish theologian [[Martin Buber]] acknowledged that his views were the "ruling ideas" but told him "What I did not know is that you shared them."