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Ironically, the same is true of Karl Marx! His father converted to Lutheranism and Karl was baptized as such.

As a young man he wrote a paper on the topical question of the Jews in Prussia[0], regarded in the modern day as antisemitic, though probably tame for the era.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question



Well, except that Karl Marx's mother was Jewish.




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