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SOURCE: COMPASS, SQUARE AND SWASTIKA: FREEMASONRY IN THE THIRD REICH. A Dissertation by CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL THOMAS. August 2011. Pg. 54 Retrieved from: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6fc6/3d12936e3a3a56ad74b24f37384ba50fbb3e.pdf
Compass, Square and Swastika: Freemasonry in the Third Reich. (August 2011) Christopher Campbell Thomas, B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Arnold Krammer Nazi persecution was not uniform and could be negotiated by the groups being targeted based on a number of factors including the racial status of the group being persecuted, the willingness of the group members to cooperate with the regime, the services and skills the group had to offer and the willingness of the regime to allow cooperation. The experience of Freemasons under the Third Reich provides an example of the ability of targeted groups to negotiate Nazi persecution based on these factors. As members of the educated and professional class, Freemasons belonged to the demographic that most strongly supported Hitler from the late 1920s until war’s outbreak in 1939. For Hitler, the skills these men possessed as doctors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers were essential to the success of the regime. So what would have otherwise been a mutually beneficial relationship eagerly sought after by both parties was prevented by the fact that the men were Freemasons and thus had ties to an organization whose ideology stood in complete contrast to that of National Socialism. However, because the identifier “Freemason” was not one based on biology or race, Freemasons had the ability to shed their identity as Freemasons by leaving the
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