It was likely he could face death on charges of heresy.
A hundred years before Luther began his reformation efforts, Czech reformer Jan Hus was put to death by the Roman Catholic Church for being a heretic. There was much fear Luther would be treated like Hus had been treated. Luther had the advantage of having a strong prince in his territory in Saxony who was intent on protecting Luther as one of his subjects, preventing the pope (seen as another ruling prince) from interfering with the sovereignty that Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony asserted over his domain.
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The Rape of Nanjing was significant because of the sheer volume of people who were massacred, because it was actually a direct act of manipulation and terrorism, these two things made also the United States more attentive towards the happening in the Pacific as it saw that the Japanese had an increased growth in influence over this region.