There was a strong anti-semitic feeling in Europe in the past centuries (including the XXth) [0][1]. The theory that the Jews were conspiring to sacrifice Chri

There was a strong anti-semitic feeling in Europe in the past centuries (including the XXth) [0][1]. The theory that the Jews were conspiring to sacrifice Christian children had started to spread in the 11th century. The legend proliferated first in England and then in France. [2]. Martin Luther in his early days naively imagining that the Jews, to whom he was attracted by his studies, would flock to the Church in his reformed version. When nothing of the sort happened, he denounced them in a set of pamphlets written in vituperative fury. He had produced the early, favorable "That Christ Was Born a Jew" in 1523, but after he turned on this so-called "damned, rejected race," he wrote Against the Sabbatarians (1538) and On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Christianity [2] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/how-christian-europe-created-anti-semitism-in-the-middle-ages/47800164 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/how-christian-europe-cr... [3] https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initiatives/ethics-religion-holocaust/articles-and-resources/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initi...