The most interesting part, I feel, of Wittenberg is Martin Luther’s house. This house seemed to make the processes and events of the reformation come alive. This said, a part that came alive to me that I feel is important to mention was just how flawed Martin Luther was. Thing is, people like him are portrayed as saints fighting for noble causes. However, many of these people also have serious flaws and faults that history fails—or simply forgets– to mention. For example, Martin Luther “published four anti-Jewish tracts” in which he “advocated, among other things, that recalcitrant Jews should be expelled from the country and their synagogues burned.”
So while we continuously remember and celebrate our “heroes”, we must remember that – like everybody else—they were flawed