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Moessenpay t1_j28gx69 wrote

Reply to comment by supmandude in TIL Martin Luther King was born Michael King Jr. However, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. As a result, King Sr. changed his own name as well as that of his five year old son. by 54_actual

Did he come to Hitler on Christmas eve like some fucking spirit, whispering into his ear or what?

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Maschinenwaffeleisen t1_j291kan wrote

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

Only because you are uninformed doesn't mean it is untrue. It is even in his wiki that he was a huge inspiration for German antisemitism.

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Moessenpay t1_j298nbe wrote

Arminius was also used as a symbol of German unity by the nazis. The way I see it tho, they don't have too much to do with the Holocaust to a big extent. If it wasn't for them, the Nazis would have looked at another anti-Semite, which were obviously not that rare back in the day.

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