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Catholics of the country against the government, the Kulturkampf was re-
laxed. Bismarck ignored the suggestions of the National Liberals, who
had led him into this campaign, and restrained the Kulturkampf little by
little until he finally cancelled it completely. This whole campaign re-

sulted in nothing other than the oppression of faithful German Catholics,
and the ruin of the country's sense of social well-being. Many historians
today believe that it was a fiasco that shattered Germany's sense of social
security. Moreover, after Germany, the wave of this Kulturkampf encom-
passed Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland, causing a great social
tension in these countries.

The interesting thing to note that it was the Mason intellectuals who
lured Bismarck into this policy. The Catholic Encyclopedia says:
But they (Masons) certainly furthered the movement by which Prussia
gradually became the leading state of Germany, considered by them as
the "representative and the protector of modern evolution" against "Ultra-
montanism," "bigotry," and "Papal usurpations." They also instigated the
"Kulturkampf." The celebrated jurisconsult and Mason, Grandmaster
Bluntschli, was one of the foremost agitators in this conflict; he also stirred
up the Swiss "Kulturkampf"… German Freemasons put forth untiring ef-
forts to exert a decisive influence on the whole life of the nation in keeping

with Masonic principles, thus maintaining a perpetual silent "Kul-
turkampf." The principal means which they employ are popular libraries,
conferences, the affiliation of kindred associations and institutions, the
creation, where necessary, of new institutions, through which the Ma-
sonic spirit permeates the nation. 130
That is, in spite of the fact that the Kulturkampf was stopped officially
by Bismarck, it was nevertheless continued by Masons, as an on-going
anti-religious propaganda campaign directed at society at large. The bit-
terest fruits of this struggle were reaped in the 1920's: the Nazis, who

aimed to convert the German nation back to their pre-Christian pagan-
ism, gradually gained strength and came to power in 1933. One of the

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