See what? An apples and oranges comparison?
Luther had his own Jew-hatred to contend with. Assuming that he would have done thus-and-such in 1938 is pure speculation.
Of course Luther had his own anti-semitism to contend with. However, so did just about ALL of medieval Europe. You don’t think Jews were expelled from medieval Spain, France, Germany, etc., by LUTHERANS do you?
It’s such an ignorant of context argument.
Far worse the actual silence of Christians during the actual Holocaust and the actual guilt of Christians during the Holocaust than any attempts to tie people to it who had been dead for 400 years before it ever happened.
Austria, for heaven’s sake, was Roman Catholic. Bavaria was Roman Catholic. Germany is primarily Catholic and Lutheran.
As an Austrian, Hitler was born and baptized a Roman Catholic. As near as I can tell, he was never excommunicated from that church.
Now, is it proper for me to find Roman Catholicism guilty by association?