The Story Behind This Beloved Emblem Of The Craft in Germany
In Early 1934, soon after Hitler's rise to power, it became evident
that Freemasonry was in danger.
In that same year, the "Grand Lodge of the Sun" (one of the pre-war
German Grand Lodges, located in Bayreuth) realizing the grave dangers
involved, adopted the little blue Forget-Me-Not flower as a substitute
for the traditional square and compasses.
It was felt the flower would provide brethren with an outward means
of identification while lessening the risk of possible recognition in
public by the Nazis, who were engaged in wholesale confiscation of all
Masonic Lodge properties.
Freemasonry went undercover, and this delicate flower assumed its
role as a symbol of Masonry surviving throughout the reign of
darkness.
During the ensuing decade of Nazi power a little blue Forget-Me-Not
flower worn in a Brother's lapel served as one method whereby brethren
could identify each other in public, and in cities and concentration
camps throughout Europe.
The Forget-Me-Not distinguished the lapels of countless brethren
who staunchly refused to allow the symbolic Light of Masonry to be
completely extinguished.
When the 'Grand Lodge of the Sun' was reopened in Bayreuth in 1947,
by Past Grand Master Beyer, a little pin in the shape of a
Forget-Me-Not was officially adopted as the emblem of that first
annual convention of the brethren who had survived the bitter years of
semi-darkness to rekindle the Masonic Light.
At the first Annual Convent of the new United Grand Lodge of
Germany AF&AM (VGLvD), in 1948, the pin was adopted as an official
Masonic emblem in honor of the thousands of valiant Brethren who
carried on their Masonic work under adverse conditions. The following
year, each delegate to the Conference of Grand Masters in Washington,
D.C., received one from Dr. Theodor Vogel, Grand Master of the VGLvD.
Thus did a simple flower blossom forth into a symbol of the
fraternity, and become perhaps the most widely worn emblem among
Freemasons in Germany; a pin presented ceremoniously to newly-made
Masons in most of the Lodges of the American-Canadian Grand Lodge,
AF&AM within the United Grand Lodges of Germany.
In the years since adoption, its significance world-wide has been
attested to by the tens of thousands of brethren who now display it
with meaningful pride.
Mighty
Peace Masonic District 
The Forget-Me-Not 
