Luther and the Third Reich

Luther was a virulent anti-Semite. He wasn't originally though. Early Luther is of the view that the reason the Jews still are Jewish, the reason they're not Christian is because Catholics have corrupted the gospel. And so we should kill their rabbis, burn their synagogues to the ground. There really is a fairly clear line from Luther to the Third Reich. The Nazis are claiming to be doing what Luther called for. They're promoting his work on the Jews and their lives as the name of it. It's shockingly anti-Jewish. I mean, it is shockingly ugly. As a human being, he becomes worse and worse over his life.