http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id12.html

In 1919, Adolf Hitler entered the German Workers Party which was founded by members of the racist Thule Society. This, in fact [sic], was the German branch of the Theosophical society which was founded in the 1870s by two homosexual men, Henry Olcott and convicted pedophile Charles Leadbeater, and two lesbians, Helena P. Blavatsky, a Russian born medium and Annie Beasant [sic] a former Fabian Socialist.

How many mistakes / groundless assertions in one brief paragraph – actually only half of the original paragraph?

(1) The German branch of the Theosophical Society was established in the 1890s. The Thule Society did not come into existence until the following century and was not the German branch of the Theosophical Society. The founder of the Thule Society and other German racists may well have been influenced in some respects by Theosophical ideas, e.g. Madame Blavatsky’s belief in the “seven root races” of humanity, of which she believed the Aryan to be the fifth, but the Thule Society sought to achieve Aryan supremacy, whereas the first object of the Theosophical Society was, and still is, “To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.” Racism of any kind is a negation of what the Theosophical Society stands for.

(2) There is not one shred of evidence to suggest that Colonel Olcott was homosexual.

(3) The Rev. Charles Webster Leadbeater was almost certainly a paedophile, or perhaps more accurately a pederast, but he was never convicted of anything – even if he should have been.

(4) The evidence that Madame Blavatsky was a lesbian is very weak, and the evidence that Mrs Besant was a lesbian is weaker still. In fact it isn’t really evidence at all, but pure conjecture. I notice that he can’t even get the spelling of Besant’s name right.

(5) Neither Charles Leadbeater nor Annie Besant was a founder of the Theosophical Society, which was founded in New York in 1875. Leadbeater did not join it until 1883, Besant not until 1889.