Bibliograph

Demonizing the Jews, Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany, Christopher J. Probst

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Demonizing the Jews, Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany, Christopher J. Probst

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Demonizing the Jews

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Christopher J. Probst

Sub title

Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany

Summary

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 anti-Semitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews

Target audience

adult

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