Did the Nazis ever cite Martin Luther's "The Jews and their lies" to justify the holocaust?
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From German wikipedia on Luther's relationship to the Jews and antisemitism, translated/paraphrased by me:
The propaganda organ Stürmer claimed Luther as a ruthless antisemite and that protestant pastors should preach this aspect more (note that ruthless antisemite is meant positive here & apparently the actual quote)
Julius Streicher (head editor) called, claiming Luther, for the "eradication of the jewish people" and that Luther had warned of the Jews.
Schoolbooks like from Volk und Führer (7th grade, 1941) and Deutsche Lesebuch für Volksschulen (1943) quoted Luthers antisemite passages extensivly.
Starting at latest in 1933, some protestants argued (citing Luther) that the protestant church should be more antisemite. No major protestant functionaries protested against the november pogroms of 1938, some defended the progroms by quoting Luther. Antifascists like Dietrich Bonhoeffer seemed to be very isolated within protestant churches.
While Luther was surely an influential antisemite, he was not uniformly so. Nazi propgagndists like Streicher and theologicians quote mined Luther, explaining why the antisemite texts of Luther should be heeded, while those calling for conversion of jews should not. Propagandist Rosenberg was critical of Luther because Luther's translation of the old testament had 'jewified' christianity, whatever that means.
So Luther was cited in antisemite propagande by the regime and was cited in debates within the protestant churches to justify closer alignment to the Nazi regime.
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