Edited sentence: According to Robert Michael, Luther scholars who defend, censor, or try to tone down his views on the Jews, ignore the murderous implications of Luther's antisemitism.Indianapolis, IN: Christian Theological Seminary 46, 4 (Fall 1985) 339-356.Like the Nazis, Luther mythologized the Jews as completely evil: they should not be treated as humans and should be cast out of Germany.Luther Scholars and the Jews  1985 Encounter.Michael, Robert.Robert Michael is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he has taught the Holocaust for nearly thirty years.Robert Michael was of the 1997 recipients of the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Prize for the "most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history," Dr.There was a strong  parallel between Luther's ideas and feelings about Jews and Judaism and the essentially anti-Jewish Weltanschauung of most German Lutherans throughout the Holocaust.They could be saved if they converted to Christianity, but their demonic hostility to Christian society makes this inconceivable