User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/01 -- Assassin's Creed III era and boxart revealed/@comment-4890645-20120302062209/@comment-1153722-20120302062637

Just because Freemasons have some same rituals and practices as the Knights Templar in actual history, does not indicate that the Freemasons are indeed Templars in AC canon. If you read the Freemasons and Illuminati articles, you will quickly see that Freemasons are more likely to be Assassins and Illuminati to be Templars...

And World War II was a Templar scheme, Roosevelt, Winston and Stalin weren't fighting against Hitler because Hitler was an enemy of them, it was simply to cause chaos.

But we will just have to wait and see what they are going to do for this game.