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Wherever you see or hear a Jew teaching, do not think otherwise than that you are hearing a poisonous Basiliskus who with his face poisons and kills people.

— Martin Luther On the Jews and Their Lies (1543)

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The Jews and Their Lies (Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948), p. 22

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