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Propaganda slide entitled "Jewry, Freemasonry and Bolshevism," featuring a poisonous snake with bared fangs. [LCID: 49819]
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Freemasonry

The Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that evolved from medieval stonemasons guilds. Adolf Hitler, like other right-wing politicians of the time, associated Freemasons with Jews. As a result, some Freemasons experienced persecution during the Nazi rise to power and throughout the Holocaust (1933-1945). Explore more content related to the Freemason organization and its members before and during the Holocaust. 

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Display, entitled "British Freemasonry," in an anti-Masonic exhibition at a Berlin museum. [LCID: 90041]
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An anti-Masonic exhibition at a Berlin museum
A reconstruction of a Masonic lodge from the Isle of Jersey, on display in an anti-Masonic exhibition in Nuremberg. [LCID: 90042]
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Anti-Masonic exhibition in Nuremberg
Vertical poster with part of a globe covering the bottom half. The top half has three different Masonic symbols: the Masonic temple, the compass with a Star of David in the center, and the Masonic apron.
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Anti-Masonic poster
An antisemitic and anti-Masonic display at the exhibition "Der ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew), which sought to establish a connection ... [LCID: 66060]
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Antisemitic and anti-Masonic display
A billboard advertising an anti-Masonic exhibition organized by the anti-Masonic Belgian league, "L'Epuration," in the Masonic Supreme ... [LCID: 90033]
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Billboard Advertising an Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium
A display, entitled "British Freemasonry," at an antisemitic and anti-Masonic exhibition in Berlin: the juxtaposition of a Torah ... [LCID: 91537]
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Display at an antisemitic and anti-Masonic exhibition in Berlin
Group portrait of members of the Freemasons Lodge of Chernovtsy, Bukovina, approximately 75 percent of whom were Jewish. [LCID: 36388]
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Freemasonry
Propaganda slide entitled "Jewry, Freemasonry and Bolshevism," featuring a poisonous snake with bared fangs. [LCID: 49819]
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Freemasonry under the Nazi Regime
Illustrated cream pamphlet cover. Illustration features a sun with a swastika rising over a cross bearing the star and compass of the freemasons. A text block sits at the bottom of the page.
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Pamphlet cover
Group portrait of members of the Freemasons Lodge of Chernovtsy, Bukovina, approximately 75 percent of whom were Jewish. [LCID: 36388]
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Portrait of members of the Freemasons Lodge of Chernovtsy, Bukovina
Page with stamps on it. There is another piece of paper taped to the center with additional stamps. The page has a black border and a block of English text that reads, ‘Special issue of Serbia under German occupation, for the anti-Jewish and anti-Masons exhibition in Belgrad 1942.’
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Stamps

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