Historically acclaimed books like The Third Reich – A New History by Michael Burleigh detail when, how, why and in what horrible fashion was Freemasonry victimized by Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich. Equally, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has devoted a section to the Nazi persecution of Freemasonry. In Germany, shortly after World War 1 there had apparently emerged two types of German Masonic lodges: The Humanitarian and the Old Prussian. Notably, the vast majority and most persecuted Freemason’s by the Nazi’s were and remain, the “Humanitarian.” There is something positive to be said about the Humanitarian Mason having dared to operate within concentration camps because of the strong will and desire of its members to maintain the Masonic Order and principles cherished by them. Masonic sources state the first known Masonic Lodge to exist within the walls of a Nazi concentrations camp was the Lodge Liberte Cherie or Beloved Liberty Lodge — started by seven Belgian Freemason
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