| − | '''Rudolf Freiherr von Sebbottendorff''' (the alias of Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer) was a German aristocrat and political activist. He helped found the Nazi Party.<ref>Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pages 82-83</ref> He led a group called the Thule Society, a group of German mystics. He also originally founded and owned the anti-semetic Volkishcher Beobachter that Hitler later purchased. <ref>Schwarzwaller, Wulf (1988). The Unknown Hitler : His Private Life and Fortune. National Press Books page 80</ref> He was an occultist. <ref> Ellic Howe, Urania's Children</ref> He was a Freemason, even though the Nazi Party opposed Freemasonry. <ref>Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935 page 138</ref> He wrote ''The Practice of the Ancient Turkish Freemasons''. He was initiated into Freemasonry by a Jewish family called the Termudis prior to the First World War. | + | '''Rudolf Freiherr von Sebbottendorff''' (the alias of Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer) was a German aristocrat and political activist. He helped found the Nazi Party.<ref>Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pages 82-83</ref> He led a group called the Thule Society, a group of German mystics. He also originally founded and owned the anti-semitic Volkishcher Beobachter that Hitler later purchased. <ref>Schwarzwaller, Wulf (1988). The Unknown Hitler : His Private Life and Fortune. National Press Books page 80</ref> He was an occultist. <ref> Ellic Howe, Urania's Children</ref> He was a Freemason, even though the Nazi Party opposed Freemasonry. <ref>Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935 page 138</ref> He wrote ''The Practice of the Ancient Turkish Freemasons''. He was initiated into Freemasonry by a Jewish family called the Termudis prior to the First World War. |