# Luther publishes On the Jews and Their Lies

Date: 1543

## The fact

In 1543 Von den Juden und ihren Lügen appeared. It urges rulers to burn synagogues, raze houses, confiscate books and gold, and put Jews to forced labour or expulsion. This is a completed book by [Luther](/people/martin-luther), not a rumour.

## Context

Earlier Luther had hoped for conversion (That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew, 1523). By 1543 he wrote as a territorial church father after failed conversion hopes. Josel of Rosheim's politics are the Jewish-side context, not a reason to soften the text.

## Evidence and sources

The 1543 treatise is openly printed and translated. Independent catalogues list it. What it does not prove is that every Lutheran town enacted every clause in 1543. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

The heaviest minority-rights cost in this dossier. Later Nazi use is a later Fact; this Fact is the 1543 programme.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1543 book and its recommendations. Not established: that Luther invented European antisemitism; that 1543 equals 1933. Confidence high on the text.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights), FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1543-01-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He authored the 1543 treatise urging princes to burn synagogues, destroy homes, and seize books. The welfare reading is worsening, through protection-of-minority-rights, FDI weakening at weight 0.7 direction -1. A printed programme of synagogue-burning and expulsion is a minority-rights catastrophe path, later cited by modern antisemites; 1543 is the Fact, not 1933. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

## People

- Martin Luther: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/137
- https://ccel.org/ccel/luther

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-jews-and-their-lies-1543