You mean, nothing like this:
I brief, dear princes and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule-- if my counsel does not please your, find better advice, so that you and we all can be rid of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before God in the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, this dear mother, all hristians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us.... .With this faithful counsel and warning I wish to cleanse and exonerate my conscience.
---Martin Luther, the Jews and their Lies, 1543
Lest anyone think I'm down on Protestants, the Spanish Inquisition and the pogroms were each responsible for the genocidal extermination of thousands of Jews.
Lest anyone think I'm down on Protestants, the Spanish Inquisition and the pogroms were each responsible for the genocidal extermination of thousands of Jews.
Genocide by definition means an attempt to kill ALL of them. I just do not see that in Germany until Hitler. I mean, Germans are totally competent people, inventive, industrius and all that and, if Martin Luther had convinced them to esterminate Jews, it would not have taken them 500 years.
The basic reality is that Luther, despite any personal failings he might have had, taught Germans and others as well to read and learn what Christ himself had said instead of relying upon the interpretations of the catholic priesthood and, once the people started doing that, then so long as Christianity prevailed in those lands there would be no fear of genocide since nothing Christ himself ever said could be interpreted that way.
It was only after Christianity had been essentially replaced with one of the great isms based upon the theory of evolution that any of these darker demons in the German psyche would ever be acted upon.
Aside from that, the story of the twentieth century involves two such great isms and not just one. The communists outdid the nazis in sheer numbers of victims and the other really big "holocaust" of the twentieth century was the commie holocaust against Christian Russia and the Ukraine and the artificial famines and, for whatever it's worth, an awful lot of the commie officials involved in such affairs were Jews and everybody in Europe knew about that, and the backlash from all that was added to any animosity towards Jews which might have been leftover from Martin Luther. In other words, Jews caught a sort of a double whammie from Charles Darwin in the twentieth century.