Fifthly, passport and traveling privileges should be absolutely forbidden to the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not farmers or craftsmen or merchants, but only usurers, and they should remain at home.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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On the Jews and Their Lies

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1543

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Shocking

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https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-luther-on-the-jews-and-their-lies

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