The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an infamous text which describes Jewish plans to rule the world, which is historically one of the most controversial of its kind. It describes what was discussed at the August 1897 Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland.
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[edit] Origins and Release
Its origins are somewhat an enigma inasmuch as it is believed to be of Jewish origin. One account of its origins has Justine Glinka acquiring the text in Paris in 1884 from Joseph Schorst, a Jewish Freemason. (She may have translated it from French to Russian.) In 1885 she passed it on to General Orgevskii who passed them onto General Cherevin, but it did not reach the Tsar. After being banished to her estate in Orel, she then passed the text onto Alexis Sukhotin. He shared it with two of his acquaintances. Philip Stephanov, who may have published it but not for wide distribution. And Sergei Nilus, on whom see below.
There was private circulation of the Protocols in France in 1897, under the backdrop of the Dreyfus affair.
The first printed mention of the Protocols in Russia was in 1902, by Mikhail Menshikov in the "Novoye Vremya" newspaper. The first known publishing took place in 1903, in the "Znamya" newspaper.
They were also published in 1905 (also in 1901? and 1903?) by Segei Nilus in his book "Velikoe v malom i antikhrist" ("The Great within the Small"), with the claim that they were from the 1897 conference. (The story above was about Justine Glinka). In 1917 Kerensky had copies of this book destroyed, but a copy remains within the British Library, deposited there 1906.
Nicholas II ordered copies of the Protocols to be confiscated after an investigation in 1905 sought to determine their genuineness.
(Was there another publishing by Boutmi in 1905?)
[edit] Translations into Languages other than French and Russian
They were translated into German in January 1920 by Gottfried Zur Beck. They were translated into English by Victor Marsden in 1920, although this had been preceded by another translation by George Shanks.
[edit] Claims of a Hoax
In 1921 Lucien Wolf, a Jewish writer, claimed that the Protocols plagarized a pamphlet from 1864 "Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu" written by Maurice Joly. These claims were repeated in the newspaper The Times in August. Later it had been suggested that Matvei Golovinski wrote the Protocols.
[edit] The Protocols in National Socialist Germany
The German leader Adolf Hitler claimed the Protocols to be genuine, and they were used as propaganda. He also mentions the Protocols in his work Mein Kampf:
"To what an extent the whole existence of this people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, so infinitely hated by the Jews. They are based on a forgery, the Frankfurter Zeitung moans and screams once every week: the best proof that they are authentic. What many Jews may do unconsciously is here consciously exposed. And that is what matters. It is completely indifferent from what Jewish brain these disclosures originate; the important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty they reveal the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. The best criticism applied to them, however, is reality. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this book will at once understand the screaming of the Jewish press. For once this book has become the common property of a people, the Jewish menace may be considered as broken." [1]
[edit] The Protocols in the Arab World
[edit] Censorship and Prosecutions
[edit] Contents
Although the Protocols were viciously refuted by many on the left and Jewish radicals, and the authenticity of these texts are still hotly debated, part of the reason they gained such acceptance was that they agreed with many ideas that people already had about the Jews and that they contained a grain of truth. Even if The Protocols were fake, it in no way means no one uses similar techniques as described in the book.
[edit] Web Links
- Revilo Oliver's comments on the Protocols
- Discussion of the protocols on the I am an Englishman website
