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To: Virginia-American
Oh, yeah, Luther rarely gave any sermons in the 1930s, so you'll have to be satisfied with Hitler as the primary source of anti-semitic literature during that period.

We must also note that Hitler didn't think highly of Lutherans anyway, and he, himself, was not a Lutheran.

482 posted on 09/24/2006 8:28:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Oh, yeah, Luther rarely gave any sermons in the 1930s,

I imagine he was quoted now and then. And studied in German schools

Whatever Hitler's personal views, he knew how to present a winning platform to the German people. Anti-semitism was part of it, and Luther is the patron saint of anti-semites. (Not that it was unheard of in Catholic Bavaria and Austria; think of Adolf H. as ecumenical). Luther may have used "Jew" as a code word for "Catholic", but I wonder how many people quoting him knew that. (I certainly never heard it before) And sometimes "Jew" meant "Jew".

521 posted on 09/24/2006 8:53:08 PM PDT by Virginia-American (What do you call an honest creationist? An evolutionist.)
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