“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.”
— Jack Fischel in Hadassah Magazine

“Thoughtfully challenge[s] the supposed discontinuity between pre-modern anti-Judaism and modern antisemitism....Probst provides us with a detailed exegesis of each of his sources....Show[s] that the opinions of church leaders, which Probst so ably describes in the Protestant case, had serious consequences.”
— Shelley O. Baranowski, H-Judaic