Martin Luther's Terrible Mistake: The Seven Point Plan

On a sign above the entrance gate to the infamous German Chelmno death camp located in Poland is written: "This is the Gate of God. The righteous shall enter therein" (Psalms 118:20). This was not meant to be a welcome sign to give courage or hope to the Jews who were goaded like cattle into the confines of Chelmno, but rather a mock designed to humiliate them on their first leg's journey into an earthly hell. Between the gate sign and the ovens stood a ghostly spectator. Always the spectator.

The specter was Martin Luther. This incorporeal being lent his phantasmic presence to Nazi Germany and was approvingly present at the Holocaust, as documented by numerous scholars. How could this be? Luther had been dead and buried for some 400 years.

Professor Robert J. Wistrich, a top scholar on anti-Semitism, writes: "The seed of hatred sown by Luther would reach its horrible climax in the Third Reich when German Protestants showed themselves to be particularly receptive to Nazi anti-Semitism."[1]

Further, one Lutheran translator of Luther's works states that "It is impossible to publish Luther's treatise today without noting how similar his proposals were to the actions of the National Socialist regime in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's."[2]

What are some of the proposals alluded to above? There are seven proposal points known as Martin Luther's Seven-Point Plan. Can you see the similarity with Hitler's plans for the Jews and Luther's seven plans for the Jews as listed below?

• synagogues should be set on fire
• Jewish homes should be burned to the ground, the people kept in stables like horses
• they should be deprived of prayer books and Scriptures in which is found lies, curses and blasphemy
• the rabbis must be forbidden under the threat of death to engage in teaching
• Jews should be forbidden passports and not allowed to travel
• all their money and valuables of silver and gold should be confiscated and kept by the government
• let the young and strong, male and female alike, be given garden implements to work the land for food

Hitler idolized Martin Luther. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, calls Luther one of the greatest heroes of Germany and the German people, while Professor Friedrich Heer, the greatest authority for authenticating Hitler, was determined in his belief that Luther had prepared the way for Hitler's attack against the Jews. Heer also describes Hitler's belief that Martin Luther saw the Jews of his time as Germany was seeing the Jews in Hitler's day.

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