Eugenics poster entitled
"The relationship between Jews and Freemasons."



The text at the top reads: "World politics World revolution." The text at the bottom reads, "Freemasonry is an international organization beholden to Jewry with the political goal of establishing Jewish domination through world-wide revolution." The map, decorated with Masonic symbols (temple, square, and apron), shows where revolutions took place in Europe from the French Revolution in 1789 through the German Revolution in 1919. This poster is no. 64 in a series entitled "Erblehre und Rassenkunde" (Theory of Inheritance and Racial Hygiene), published by the Verlag fuer nationale Literatur (Publisher for National Literature), Stuttgart, ca. 1935.

Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Hans Pauli

Few people are aware that Freemasons suffered at the hands of the Nazis following Hitler's rise to power in 1933. This is probably because numerically Freemasons were a much small group than any of the others which also suffered.

Essentially, Hitler's argument was that Freemasons and Jews had colluded in taking over Germany and had brought the country to its knees - politically, culturally and economically. History tells, if we are prepared to listen and learn, that there is nothing new under the sun. Hitler's belief that the Jews and Freemasons were responsible for all the ills of Germany after the end of the First World War led him to believe that by eliminating them Germany's problems would be resolved.

A few may be aware of the persecution of Freemasons by Hitler, but very few know that they were also hunted down and executed by Franco (Spain), Stalin (USSR) and Mussolini (Italy). When one is aware that Freemasons were also executed, and their property stolen, in countries invaded and occupied by the Nazis (e.g. Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Greece, Austria, Romania, etc.) then one begins to wonder exactly what was the total death toll of Freemasons.

It is not possible to now determine how many Freemasons were executed just because they were Freemasons, but a conservative estimate has suggested that the number of German Freemasons who died in concentration camps numbered 80,000.

Read further papers and documents about nazifascist persecution of Freemasonry:

• The Annihilation of Freemasonry
• Nazi Persecution of Freemasonry - Outstanding Documents
• Freemasonry banned in Spain by General Franco
• Masonic Losses During The Second World War in Belgium
• "The Blue Forget-Me-Not", another side of the Story by W.Bro Alain Bernheim 33°
• German Freemasonry and its attitudes toward the nazi regime by W.Bro Alain Bernheim 33°
• The history and the persecutions of Spanish Freemasonry by V.W.Bro. Martin I. McGregor, Grand Lecturer, Freemasons New Zealand