[Vigilanteman]

You are trying to hold Luther responsible for something that happened 400 years later. This makes even less sense than trying to hold Darwin responsible for the reprehensible theory of social Darwinism which the same group of Nazis implemented through perversion of his theories.

[af_vet_1981]

You are trying to hold Luther responsible for something that happened 400 years later. This makes even less sense than trying to hold Darwin responsible for the reprehensible theory of social Darwinism which the same group of Nazis implemented through perversion of his theories.

When you make that supposition, ask about yourself ? Are you
1. trying to rehabilitate Luther specifically, or antisemites in general ?
2. afraid that if Luther is not in the kingdom of heaven then his doctrines are uninspired ?

Julius Streicher defends himself at Nuremberg (1946)

On April 29th 1946 Julius Streicher, NSDAP member and publisher of Der Sturmer, was cross-examined at Nuremberg by Dr Marx:

Marx: Witness, what aims did you pursue with your speeches and your articles in Der Sturmer?

Streicher: The speeches and articles which I wrote were meant to inform the public on a question which appeared to me one of the most important questions. I did not intend to agitate or inflame but to enlighten.

Marx: Apart from your weekly journal, and particularly after the Party came into power, were there any other publications in Germany which treated the Jewish question in an anti-Semitic way?

Streicher: 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 the 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…

- See more at: http://alphahistory.com/holocaust/julius-streicher-evidence-nuremberg-1946/#sthash.ngQ4KzJe.dpuf