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the well-documented fact that Martin Luther was extremely intolerant toward Jewish people. Luther’s cold statements about Jews were eerily connected to the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany prior to WWII.

Yep, antisemitism just fell down out of the sky with the advent of Martin Luther. No one had ever heard of it before then; pogroms were a completely new thing. /s

Ridiculous.

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” Luther’s cold statements about Jews were eerily connected to the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany prior to WWII.”

I read an excellent book on Hitler. It included statements by his room mate in Vienna in 1906 when Hitler worked as a post card painter. He was quite an artist.

Hitler’s room mate took him on a tour of Vienna when he arrived and showed him the sex industry that was run by the Jews. Hitler was very upset and joined a group formed by the mayor of Vienna against the Jews and sex industry called the “Christian Socialist Movement.”

This was about the same time that Freud, who also lived in Vienna and was obsessed with sex, wrote his book “Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood.” It consists of a psychoanalytic study of da Vinci’s life based on his paintings.

Freud provides a psychoanalytical interpretation of da Vinci’s The Virgin and Child with St. Anne. According to Freud, the Virgin’s garment reveals a vulture when viewed sideways. Freud claimed that this was a manifestation of a “passive homosexual” childhood fantasy that Leonardo wrote about in the Codex Atlanticus, in which he recounts being attacked as an infant in his crib by the tail of a vulture. He translated the passage thus: It seems uranous and rose are the love of my life and that I was always destined to be so deeply concerned with vultures — for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips.

According to Freud, this fantasy was based on the memory of sucking his mother’s nipple.

Hitler, being an avid reader and an artist, living in the same City of Vienna surely read this famous book by Freud and was offended.

This was Hitler’s formation of his hatred for Jews.

Tidbit of trivia....

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"Jews are a base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.... They are full of the "devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine.... The synagogue was a defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut... They (Jews) should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection,and these poisonous envenomed worms should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time." - Martin Luther from "On The Jews And Their Lies"

Martin Luther argued that Jewish synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. Martin Luther also seemed to advocate their murder, writing "we are at fault in not slaying them."

Source:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8012422/The-Jews-and-their-lies-by-Martin-Luther

Show me a European following that was larger than Luther's that pro-actively advocated such racist and destructive behavior toward Jewish people.