Some interesting facts found on the internet:Myth: Freemasonry did not operate during World War II in the countries controlled by the Nazis.
Fact: It did, but not openly. (Even today there are countries in which Freemasons must meet in secret.) In the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. the Masonic population reached close to 100 in October 1944. According to M. Jattefaux, a French Freemason, the known Masons met daily. Occupying the minds of these men with Masonic ritual and lessons helped relieve them of their anxieties. Masonic subjects were selected and by word of mouth, transmitted from one prison block to the next prison block. There quiet discussions would take place. Then block by block the results of their debate returned.
Myth: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were Freemasons.
Fact: Neither Thomas Jefferson or Patrick Henry were members of the Craft. An exhaustive search of Masonic records in Virginia, and elsewhere, offers no iota of evidence to make them Freemasons. Jefferson participated in the cornerstone laying of his University at Charlottesville, which was done Masonically. He praised Freemasonry and his own words proved he had never been a member of the Craft.