It was I, Martin Luther, who slew all the peasants in the insurrection, for I commanded them to be slaughtered. All their blood is upon my shoulders. But I cast it on our Lord God who commanded me to speak in this way.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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After the Peasants' War

Date / Period

1525

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Controversial

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