Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
Wow Adrian thanks for posting, that is extremely trippy, but thankfully it is also completely erroneous!
Easy now. I am not the one trying to prove a conspiracy. There seems to be doubt about Rauschning, that's right, though this Hänel fellow should keep better company if he, in turn, wants to be taken seriously. As a historian I wouldn't want to be associated with the site you linked to.

I guess in Rauschning's favour we should say that as a former nazi and Hitler admirer, he knew the regime from the inside. He wrote a very good analysis of it, Die Revolution des Nihilismus (1938), from which he quotes in his Parisian book Hitler m'a dit (1939). Even if the exact quotes from the latter are dubious, I wouldn't discard the book entirely.

And it doesn't refute my main point that Hitler hated freemasons. They were a popular scapegoat. Erich Ludendorff blamed them for losing WWI in 1918.