[af_vet_1981]

It wasn’t just the pamphlet;,there are letters, including the last letter to his wife the nun, cursing the Jews and complaining that neighboring Christians were harboring the Jews. He was the proto German Nazi, as all antisemites run the risk of becoming. Their hearts and minds drink poison, willingly as the grasp, like Haman, to strike at the Jews.

[Menes]

Well, Luther‘s viperous writings against the Jews date from the last years of his life, and a good number of his fellow Reformers considered these writings a disgrace.

Still, what this Germanophobic piece of gold, propagandist extraordinaire, Willam L. Shirer wrote (and quite a few of his epigones) is wrong: these writings were largely forgotten until Nazi sympathizers in the Lutheran churches dug them up again in the 20th century. Then, they came in very handy for propaganda purposes.