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After [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power he outlawed Freemasonry in [[Germany]]. That year in April, Herman Goering, a German public official, held a meeting with the Grand Master of German Freemasonry, and told him Freemasonry would not be tolerated in Germany anymore. At first Hitler only outlawed the pro-Jewish Humantirian Freemasonic lodges in 1933. But in 1935 he outlawed Freemasonry in all its forms, including the highly anti-Jewish Prussian Grand Lodges.<ref>Short, Martin Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons HarperCollins page 27</ref><ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007187]</ref> Robert Jackson, the US prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg trials, stated, "It is not generally understood that among the earliest and most savage of the many persecutions undertaken by every modern dictatorship are those directed against the Free Masons".<ref name="bessel.org"/>

After [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power he outlawed Freemasonry in [[Germany]]. That year in April, Herman Goering, a German public official, held a meeting with the Grand Master of German Freemasonry, and told him Freemasonry would not be tolerated in Germany anymore. At first Hitler only outlawed the pro-Jewish Humantirian Freemasonic lodges in 1933. But in 1935 he outlawed Freemasonry in all its forms, including the highly anti-Jewish Prussian Grand Lodges.<ref>Short, Martin Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons HarperCollins page 27</ref><ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007187]</ref> Robert Jackson, the US prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg trials, stated, "It is not generally understood that among the earliest and most savage of the many persecutions undertaken by every modern dictatorship are those directed against the Free Masons".<ref name="bessel.org"/>

==Famous Freemasons==  

==Famous Freemasons==