tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post6227278958459529901..comments2024-03-26T12:05:58.591-04:00Comments on Freemasons For Dummies: Anti-Masonry: Be Careful What You PrintChristopher Hodapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-52378681928657578702018-03-09T11:56:33.711-05:002018-03-09T11:56:33.711-05:00I should add also that the 80,000-200,000 figure o...I should add also that the 80,000-200,000 figure obviously includes Jews and other "undesirables" that the Nazis imprisoned and executed who also happened to be Masons. I did not state that their SOLE crime to the Reich was their Masonic membership, as the SS needed little excuse or due process to hurl anyone into the camps or summarily execute. Masonic membership rates before the war and and just after its end in Germany and the other eleven countries invaded by Nazi forces are tedious to assemble, and even more difficult to correlate with actual imprisonment and death rates. That's why the spread is so large in the estimate.Christopher Hodapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-19289666113612964002018-03-09T11:47:57.550-05:002018-03-09T11:47:57.550-05:00As I clearly stated in the post, it appeared in Th...As I clearly stated in the post, it appeared in <i>The Hiram Key.</i> I did not contact Robert Lomas to ask his source for it. However, I did not allege its origin as Nazi propaganda - Mr. Silkoff did. I suggest you vent your spleen on him. <br /><br />As to the Holocaust figure, I happen to intimately know exactly what the original source was for that number that has since been repeated ad nauseam. I was that source, based upon difficult collection and tabulation of available data in 2004 from multiple sources, and again in 2008. As I said in the book, it's impossible to say how many Masons were murdered by the Nazis but estimates range anywhere from 80,000 to 200,000. The estimate was and is mine alone. Unfortunately, the <i>For Dummies</i> series doesn't permit footnoting in any way, and so citing sources in their books is always a pitched battle with editors, more so when the sources are multiple and complex.<br /><br />If I hear from Bob Lomas that his photo was original to him, I will of course correct this posting to reflect that.Christopher Hodapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-27221806985069119532018-03-09T03:29:21.789-05:002018-03-09T03:29:21.789-05:00That photo has been around since the 1940's???...That photo has been around since the 1940's??? It's from The Hiram Key written by a Freemason and was used to speculate about a lot of Knights Templar Gar'bage'. What a crooked 'writer' you are Hodapp. Much like the oft repeated-by-em@son complete-masonic-crap-with-no-references you put in Freemasons-For-Dummies about 200,000 never existed european masons 'lost' in the holocaust. Desperate and crazy masonic claims.Freemasonry Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773490096424215841noreply@blogger.com