What was Hitlers reason for killing the Jews?
For centuries Jews were considered “Christ killers” by the Christian world which led to much persecution, the Inquisition, pogroms, burning of synagogues,books, Torahs, the Holocaust, the Ku Klux Klan, et al. However, amidst all this turmoil few Christians understood that above all else that Jesus Christ was first and foremost a Jew. Martin Luther railed against the Jews after they rejected Christ and, as a result, he wrote treatise after treatise advocating their destruction. Methods he suggested included burning them alive after locking them in their synagogues, destroying the Torahs, driving them out of their homes, etc. This would provide the impetus for the Holocaust 5 centuries later. It wasn’t until 1879 when a German newspaper editor, Wilhem Marr, coined the phrase anti-semitism. That’s when the notion of a Jewish race was promulgated throughout Germany and eventually all of Europe. In the past Judaism was considered to be only a religion that under significant pressure, such a
