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A close look at specific ways in which Protestant theologians and pastors used and reacted to Luther in their teaching and preaching under Nazism... In his treatment of the supposed disconnect between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Probst shows how German Protestants during this period [following Luther] combined theological opposition to Jews with irrational, anti-Semitic stereotypes... An important and useful book. Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University

""A close look at specific ways in which Protestant theologians and pastors used and reacted to Luther in their teaching and preaching under Nazism... In his treatment of the supposed disconnect between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Probst shows how German Protestants during this period [following Luther] combined theological opposition to Jews with irrational, anti-Semitic stereotypes... An important and useful book.""--Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University ""In this indispensable study of Protestant pastors, theologians and church officials in Hitler's Third Reich, Christopher Probst writes that Luther's anti-Semitic and anti-Judaic writings influenced the response of many Protestant clergy to Nazi anti-Semitic legislation. Demonizing the Jews is Probst's attempt to fill a historical lacuna as he describes how Protestant churchmen used Luther's writings to justify the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht, among other Nazi measures against the Jews.""--Hadassah Magazine

"""A close look at specific ways in which Protestant theologians and pastors used and reacted to Luther in their teaching and preaching under Nazism... In his treatment of the supposed disconnect between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Probst shows how German Protestants during this period [following Luther] combined theological opposition to Jews with irrational, anti-Semitic stereotypes... An important and useful book.""--Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University ""In this indispensable study of Protestant pastors, theologians and church officials in Hitler's Third Reich, Christopher Probst writes that Luther's anti-Semitic and anti-Judaic writings influenced the response of many Protestant clergy to Nazi anti-Semitic legislation. Demonizing the Jews is Probst's attempt to fill a historical lacuna as he describes how Protestant churchmen used Luther's writings to justify the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht, among other Nazi measures against the Jews.""--Hadassah Magazine"

<p> A close look at specific ways in which Protestant theologians andpastors used and reacted to Luther in their teaching and preaching under Nazism....In his treatment of the supposed disconnect between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Probst shows how German Protestants during this period [following Luther] combinedtheological opposition to Jews with irrational, anti-Semitic stereotypes.... Animportant and useful book. -- Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of HolocaustStudies, Pacific Lutheran University--Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pacific LutheranUniversity

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Christopher J. Probst is a visiting assistant professor of modern European history at Saint Louis University. He was a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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