As they conquered Europe, the Nazis forcibly dissolved Masonic organizations and confiscated our assets and documents wherever they established an occupation regime.
After a lodge was closed, it was ransacked for membership lists, important library and archival items, furnishings, and other cultural artifacts.
As part of their propaganda campaign against Freemasonry, the Nazis organizations mounted anti-Masonic exhibitions throughout occupied Europe.
Nazi propaganda continued to link Jews and Freemasons charging that the Jews and Masons had provoked World War II and were responsible for the policies of US President Franklin D.Roosevelt, who was identified as a Freemason. It is not known how many individuals were placed in Nazi concentration camps and were targeted only because they were Freemasons.
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