SS-Handblätter für den weltanschaulichen Erziehung der Truppe calls Martin Luther a German hero and a champion of spiritual freedom.
"The individual European nations, despite different geographical locations, traditions, and living conditions, have a shared culture. Each nation has its leadership system and way of life, but the great men and their ideas belong to all of Europe, e.g., Martin Luther, Beethoven, Mozart, Goethe, Kant, Nietzsche, Molière, Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, H. St. Chamberlain, Henrik Ibsen, Grieg, Sven Hedin, Knut Hamsun." [1] p. 49
"The longing for a strong Empire was always awake in the best Germans: Peasant and knight uprisings, Ulrich von Hutten. Luther as a champion of German spiritual freedom (falsified by his successors)." [2] p. 55
"The individual European nations, despite different geographical locations, traditions, and living conditions, have a shared culture. Each nation has its leadership system and way of life, but the great men and their ideas belong to all of Europe, e.g., Martin Luther, Beethoven, Mozart, Goethe, Kant, Nietzsche, Molière, Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, H. St. Chamberlain, Henrik Ibsen, Grieg, Sven Hedin, Knut Hamsun." [1] p. 49
"The longing for a strong Empire was always awake in the best Germans: Peasant and knight uprisings, Ulrich von Hutten. Luther as a champion of German spiritual freedom (falsified by his successors)." [2] p. 55