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Though never incorporated into official Lutheran doctrine, Luther's 16th century anti-Jew- ish diatribes have long been used by right-wing groups eager to give historical and religious jus- tification to their anti-Semitic claims. In "The Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Commu- nity," the movement's Church Council wrote that their mem- bers feel a "special burden" be- cause of "catastrophes, including the Holocaust of the 20th centu- ry, suffered by Jews in places where the Lutheran churches were strongly represented." "Grieving the complicity of our own tradition within this history of hatred," the declaration con- tinued, "we express our urgent desire to live out our faith in Je- sus Christ with love and respect for the Jewish people." The April 18 declaration was issued in conjunction with the Lutheran World Federation, the movement's international arm. In his 1543 treatise, "On the Jews and Their Lies," Luther de- scribed Jews as dishonest hea- thens, encouraging German civil authorities to confiscate their prayerbooks and burn down their synagogues and homes. "In terms of the mythology of anti-Semitism," said Marc Ca- plan, research analyst for the Anti-Defamation League, "this is one of the essential works." During World War II, Luther's anti-Semitic teachings were in- corporated into Nazi propagan- da, with only a minority of the Lutheran clergy objecting. Luther's teachings have long been circulated among the anti- Semitic literature of white su- premacist and neo-Nazi groups. Most recently, the Nation of Is- lam, the militant Black Muslim group, was selling excerpts from the 1543 treatise along with the notorious anti-Semitic tract, 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." But Lutheran leaders said they were moved to distance themselves formally from Luther's teachings on Jews be- cause of anti-Semitic statements by Luther featured prominently at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. [] They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid. Bible