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Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

Probst, Christopher J.

Paperback

General ChristianityHolocaust

ISBN10: 0253001005
ISBN13: 9780253001009
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: May 17 2012
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst's study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther's texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a de-Judaized form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther's anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.

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