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The article doesn't make clear that this is a 2,000 page annotated version of the 900 or so page original. The annotations by anti-Nazi historians. The Arab world will prefer the original version. Besides, it's only published in German, not many Arabs can read it.
“It turned out that the fear the publication would promote Hitler’s ideology or even make it socially acceptable and give neo-Nazis a new propaganda platform was totally unfounded,” IfZ director Andreas Wirsching said in a statement.
“To the contrary, the debate about Hitler’s worldview and his approach to propaganda offered a chance to look at the causes and consequences of totalitarian ideologies, at a time in which authoritarian political views and rightwing slogans are gaining ground.”
So where might this search for the causes lead?
Julius Streicher gives us a few bread crumbs to follow from his place in the defendants’ dock at Nuremberg:
Julius Streicher, (Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945, Vol. 12)
[Note, although Streicher had a part in the race laws, Hitler outlined his religious justification for the race laws in his private notes before he came into power.
When asked if there were any other anti-Semitic publications, other than Der Stürmer, published in Germany, Streicher replied:
Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants’ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In this book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...
Obviously religious "leadership" are vested with a significant responsibilty for the moral character of the culture within their purview.
Consider a culture where Lutheran children are, even in 2017, indoctrinated to regurgitate Martin Luther on command from, among other works, Luter's Small Catechism - whilst ignoring what Streicher references, not only in confirmation classes, but also in the history curriculum of their Elementary/High/University schools.
What, in that egregiously and willfully negligent educational context, is the cultural effect when those children later not only discover Martin Luther's "On the Jews and their Lies" on the Internet - but discover that there are versions having significantly different text include (or excluded):
First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom...
...Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.
Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them. (remainder omitted)
//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html
Vs:
http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres9/Luthereng.pdf
(Now archived) https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171207/http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres9/Luthereng.pdf
Translated/Edited by Martin H. Bertram in association with Concordia Publishing - and, oddly,missing the above (and other) text.
Search Bertram's edited version for any of the following: Burn, Raize, Cinder
Who can spot the burning white wash?
(Note to the LCMS "leaders" in the fallible and uninspired peanut gallery:
If you're going to quote Saint Luther day after day after day whilst celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, then do humanity a favor and quote ALL of Luther's works and not just the bits that are convenient for keeping you perched upon the steps of the temple bidness in St. Louis. 'kay? )
Evidently we could use an English version.
Consider this revisionist gem:
"So he was an anti-Semite after all, wasn’t he? He was not. Anti-Semites are racists, and racists appeared on the scene much later in history—after the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Luther did not think of Jews in ethnic terms; his bias was religious. Just before his death he admonished the princes to treat converts from Judaism as brethren. "
--Uwe Siemon-Netto, "Luther and the Jews"
--Lutheran Witness magazine, APRIL 2004
Luther was not a racist... because racism hadn't been invented yet. Are Uwe Serious?
"First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom...
...Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God."
--Martin Luther "On the Jews and their lies"
Quack, waddle...
Definition of ethnic cleansing
: the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneityhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnic%20cleansing
Racialist or not - that's a DUCK!
It should go with a book on Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and the Nuremberg Trials.