Freemasons

  • Masons
Identifier
722
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

Nazi propaganda linked Jews and Freemasons. Freemasonry became a particular obsession of the chief of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst, Reinhard Heydrich, who counted the Masons, along with the Jews and the political clergy, as the 'most implacable enemies of the German race’.

Sources

  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org