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”Exposing the Worldwide Freemasonry” - a sharply antisemitic booklet in a special edition by the Nazi Der Aufbau against ”Judeo-Masonry” - ”Enthüllte Welt-Freimaurerei” - ”Exposing the Worldwide Freemasonry” - a special edition issued by the Nazi ”Der Aufbau” (The Building) - the official organ of the ”Office for Crafts and Trade of the NSDAP” (the Nazi Party) and of the DAF (German Labor Front). Berlin 1935 - first edition. Rare. An antisemitic booklet in which the Nazis propagated the “Judeo-Masonry” libel (Judeo-Masonry) – the false theory according to which Judaism and Freemasonry cooperate in a secret conspiracy to control the world. Throughout, the booklet describes various rituals and “codes” of the “Freemasonry” as revealing the “secret” by which the Jews operate, with the message being that all “Freemasons’” lodges must be closed as soon as possible, since they are an instrument in the hands of the Jews to take control of Germany from within, and subsequently of the entire world. According to Edgar Bissinger in the introduction, the booklet was intended “for the education of the broadest strata of the population who until now did not understand or even opposed the campaign of the Nazi Party against the Freemasons.” And its guiding principle is: “Anyone who wishes to understand the nature of the ‘Freemasons’ must first understand Judaism. Anyone who knows Judaism will understand the nature and the danger of the Freemasons. The Freemasons are an international organization led by world Jewry and completely subordinate to it, with the political aim of securing world domination for Jewry.”. At the beginning of the booklet a triangle is presented depicting the hierarchy within the “Freemasons’” lodge. The author claims that there exists a “secret Jewish government” that controls the “Freemasons’” lodges in Brussels, Moscow, Berlin, and other cities of the world, and that the rituals conducted in the various lodges are of a distinctly Jewish character. He describes the activity taking place in the “Grand Lodges” of the Freemasons in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, where, according to him, Jewish political leaders operated in secret to influence world events: “At the higher secret degrees, central world policy was decided, and major events were set in motion. Peace, world war and revolution, assassinations of rivals, princes and humiliated politicians, but also murders of traitors and unruly individuals. The more important and significant a Freemason, the higher his rank, ” it is written. He continues and describes the “secret” codes that were found by the Nazis in Freemasons’ lodges throughout Germany, and through various photographs presents the hidden signs used by the Jews in order “to conceal and deceive” - “Almost no political organization understood better how to conceal and deceive by means of a complex web of systems than the worldwide Freemasons under Jewish leadership, ” it is written. He further adds that Jewish poison is disseminated in the various lodges: “One must not mock the rituals of the Freemasons, but rather treat them as a most serious matter. In their rituals, the Freemasons accomplish two things: they educate their brethren to silence, and secondly, to fearlessness in the face of death. They must be capable of eliminating traitors or opponents without mercy...”. The cover shows a man wearing a Freemason’s apron against the background of the title page of the “Babylonian Talmud” in French. According to what is written in the body of the booklet, his eyes are covered in order to prevent the persecution of the photographed subject - as are the faces of all the people photographed for the purpose of presenting the messages in the booklet. The booklet presents as fact the notion that the “Freemasons” movement is entirely subordinate to Jewish leadership: “All lodges in the world are somehow subject to a central Jewish leadership. No lodge can be exempt from this, no matter how Christian or nationalistic it may appear. Therefore, the Freemasons are more dangerous than Judaism itself, precisely because the Jew has disguised himself within the Freemasons, and because the Aryan servants of the Jews are particularly dangerous when they place their Aryan qualities—courage, determination, loyalty, and self-sacrifice—in the struggle on behalf of Judaism within the Freemasons... While the organization of the Freemasons may have grown out of medieval building guilds, its spirit is Jewish. Over time, the Freemasons have become increasingly infused with Jewish mythology until what has ultimately emerged is what is today the essence and core of worldwide Freemasonry: a Jewish brotherhood of purpose that has drawn its symbolism and its esotericism (a secret doctrine) from Jewish biblical history and from the teachings of all the secret Jewish sects.” The conclusion of the booklet is that all “Freemasons’” lodges throughout Germany must be dissolved as soon as possible,