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Originally posted by MrNECROS
Wow - how can so many misinformed people gather in the one place at one time?
Hitler wanting to kill masons (for what reason I have no idea...)
and of course there's buckets on the subject at FW.
Originally posted by orangeman dave
to masonic light and leveller is the forget me not story that i posted true, i have heard this on many occassions but wish to know if fellow masons have heard the same story?
From myself---
The Blue forget-me-not was worn by ANY Mason under German, Austrian, Italian control that wished to be defiant.
Apparantly the plan came about when Masons where arrested for wearing a square and compass on their chest, Masons who continued to be defiant and wear the squar and compass where often beaten, captured and forced into camps or simply killed..
Those who made it into camps found it difficult to create a square and compass, it was also very noticable.. in the end from an unknown source someone proposed the forget me not as a way to defiantly stand out against the Nazi and FAscist powers and declare them selves Masons to their brothers so as "the light of Masonry" would not be snuffed by the tyranical government of Germany.
In public it was sometimes worn as well for both rememberance of those now lost, but also because of it being illegal to wear the squar and compas...
EH could not find out how "wide spread" but I believe it was a general use betwen 1933 - 1947..
Originally posted by MrNECROS
Wow - how can so many misinformed people gather in the one place at one time?
We've managed to get the whole BS story about Thule not being masonic(Dispite being formed and run by a grand master of German Fremasonry), Hitler wanting to kill masons (for what reason I have no idea...) the blue for-get-me-not pin (actually the "Winter Helfe" badge of 1939) etc..etc...etc...
How many of you in this forum are actually deliberately lying and how many are just nodding along to sound like you have an opinion?
A good link for the Thule topic is:
www.crystalinks.com...
(or run a Google - many people are taking an interest in the Thule Society of late)
and of course there's buckets on the subject at FW.
Originally posted by orangeman dave
Hitler was a Catholic, as was Himmler.
The Thule Society
Heinrich Himmler was a member of the Thule Society, an extreme German nationalist group founded in 1910 by Felix Niedner. It was named after the mythical land of Hyperborea-Thule, which some of the society's devotees identified with Iceland and Greenland, said by them to be the remnants of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. Others claimed that the people of Thule had survived to become a subterranean super-race. They were brought to life by the English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in his 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, as the 'Vril-ya', would-be world conquerors imbued with psychokinetic power (vril).
At the turn of the century, the notion of the Ubermensch (superman) was taken up by many philosophers, notably Friedrich Nietzsche. It also found favour with the peddlers of a perverted form of Darwinism: another Englishman, the philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain, believed in the racial superiority of the 'Aryan' people who inhabited northern Europe.
This struck a chord with the Thule Society. Its members identified the Teuton tribes who, in AD 9, had defeated the Roman legions in the Teutoburg forest as descendants of the lost super-race of Hyperborea-Thule, guardians of the secrets of vril.
Adolf Hitler Hitler was NOT a Mason
Hitler's speech in Berlin, Zeughaus
SPEECH OF MARCH 16, 1941
England and France alone wanted war - not so much the people as a thin stratum of political and financial leadership behind which, wielding its last power, stood international Jewry and its world conspiracies of democracy and Freemasonry.