Martin Luther. The Jews and Their Lies.

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Lot 22
(ANTISEMITICA)

Martin Luther. The Jews and Their Lies.

Portrait of Luther. pp. 64. Original printed wrappers. Staple binding, leaves 27-38 detached. Lightly tanned. 8vo.

Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade May, 1948

Est: $100 - $150
PRICE REALIZED $60
German religious reformer Martin Luther grew increasingly hostile towards the Jews following their refusal to accept his new theology. In the present vituperative work, the most virulent of Luther’s anti-Semitic attacks, he subjects the Jews to a torrent of vile abuse. His practical suggestions range from forced labor to outright banishment: “First, their synagogues should be set on fire and whatever does not burn should be covered over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. Secondly, their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed. And this ought be done for the honor of God and of Christianity in order that God may see that we are Christians and that we have not wittingly tolerated or approved of such public lying, cursing and blaspheming.” “Throughout the subsequent centuries, Luther’s ferocious castigation of the Jews provided fuel for anti-Semites and the vicious force of that legacy was still evident in Nazi propaganda” (EJ, Vol. XI, col. 586). Indeed it is difficult not to compare Luther’s suggestion to burn down synagogues to Kristallnacht - which in fact, occurred on Luther’s birthday. This edition was published by the Christian Nationalist Crusade, an American anti-Semitic organization that also published a translation of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” just three years following the Holocaust.