TY  - BOOK
AU  - Probst,Christopher J.
TI  - Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany 
SN  - 9780253001023 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BX4844 .P743 2012eb
U1  - 261.2/6094309043 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Luther, Martin,
KW  - Bekennende Kirche
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Christianity and antisemitism
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - 20th century
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Protestantism in Nazi Germany -- "Luther and the Jews" -- Confessing church and German Christian academic theologians -- Confessing church pastors -- German Christian pastors and bishops -- Pastors and theologians from the unaffiliated Protestant "middle."
N2  - 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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