---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.---
Most Lutherans are blissfully ignorant of these writings, and their leftist masters aren't going to enlighten them. The fight against anti-Semitism is not big on the leftist agenda. On the contrary.
In more recent times, let us not fail to mention, that many in the Lutheran church in Germany fell into the Nazi camp and that many Lutheran ministers there advanced the Nazi cause. In my entire time with the church I heard nothing about all that, but I heard plenty about Rev. Niemoeller.
I don't know... The Nazis were avowed atheists and Nazism was an ideology steeped in an odd ball form of paganism. It's hard to see how any serious Christian could have encouraged them.
I always found it strange that while the ELCA was happy to denounce all kinds of evils with which it and its members could have only the most tenuous connection, the Holocaust was off limits. "Don't mention the War." While many of our members came from pre-War Germany or their parents did, none ever owned slaves, worked for Pinochet, or (myself excepted) worked on nuclear weapons, and (myself excepted) damn few ever served in the U.S. Armed Forces.