20 AUG 2012

DOCID: 4003332~UNCLASSIFIED(U) The religious reformer Martin Luther was subject to considerableopposition in his day from the nobility that supported the Roman CatholicChurch. One of his staunchest foes was George the Bearded, Duke ofSaxony, pictured.(U) On a couple of occasions, Luther's correspondence was intercepted,read, and published. Luther, however, in the words of one historian, "wasone of those men who cannot sit down tamely under a wrong ......