Re: “Tragically, Adolph Hitler thought that Luther was a genius who figured out how dangerous the Jewish people were. And the date that many historians mark as the beginning of the Holocaust, Nov. 9, 1938, was the day that Hitler put Luther’s advice into practice, setting on fire and vandalizing Jewish synagogues, shops, and homes”.
But Hitler’s anti-semitism was not based on Luther. The “bible” for Hitler’s anti-semitism was the ancient Roman historian Tacitus’s book “Germania”. Read “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” by Christopher Krebs.
“But Hitler’s anti-semitism was not based on Luther. The “bible” for Hitler’s anti-semitism was the ancient Roman historian Tacitus’s book “Germania”. Read “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” by Christopher Krebs.”
Hitler’s anti-semiticism was not based on just one book. And he did use Luther in any case:
https://www.amazon.com/Demonizing-Jews-Luther-Protestant-Germany/dp/0253001005
http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/20/
http://ww2f.com/threads/sch%C3%B6nerer-hitlers-forerunner.44289/
“I was rather astonished that Georg Ritter von Schönerer, the Nazi forerunner, has never been mentioned at this forum. He was the »Fuhrer’s Fuhrer«. Understanding the Schönerians is fundamental for understading the Nazi movement.
Hitler’s compatriot, born in 1842 in Vienna, pan-German, anti-Slav, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, Schönerer had significant influence on Austrian and German political thought of the late 19th century. He initiated the climate of hatred and intolerance that Hitler drove to the climax about twenty years later.”