Protocols of the Elders of Zion Were Murderous

It took almost 20 years, but the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion were finally exposed as the fraud they were. Unfortunately, it did not prevent them to become probably the most murderous document in human history.

The most murderous because the Nazis (who fervently believed in the authenticity of the Protocols), ultimately used them as justification for the Holocaust. Even when it had been proven beyond the reasonable doubt that the Protocols were a fake, they still believed that there was a horrible reality behind that fake.

Namely that Jews, indeed, intended and planned to take over the whole world, destroy human civilization AS IS and transform it into something hellish. To prevent this from happening, the Nazis argued, it is necessary to destroy the “global Jewry” by any and all means available.

This belief was strengthened by a fact that even today no one knows for sure who created Protocols – and why. And while we may be reasonably certain that we know who, and on whose orders – we still have no idea for which purpose.

Textual evidence shows that Protocols could not have been produced prior to 1901. The first known mention of The Protocols was in a 1902 article in Saint Petersburg’s conservative newspaper Novoye Vremya (New Time) by journalist Mikhail Menshikov.

In 1903, The Protocols was published as a series of articles in Znamya (Banner), a far-right Russian newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan (journalist, editor, publisher and an official in Imperial Russia).

The first and by far the most influential German translation of the Protocols appeared in January 1920. After The Times (initially) presented them as genuine in May 1920 it became a bestseller.

The Hohenzollern family even helped defray the publication costs, and Kaiser Wilhelm II had portions of the book read out aloud to dinner guests. Alfred Rosenberg’s 1923 edition gave a forgery a huge boost in Weimar republic.

However, by that time (in 1921), the Protocols have already been exposed by the forgery in the same The Times. Interestingly, this expos; was based on documents provided by… Allen Dulles (of all people).

The expos; was presented in the series of articles in The Times by its Constantinople reporter, Philip Graves, who discovered that the Protocols were in fact plagiarism from the work of Maurice Joly (The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a political satire on Napoleon III).

Historians pretty much agree (although they are not 100% sure) that Protocols were a forgery compiled by Russian/French journalist Matvei Golovinski (he wrote for Le Figaro) and was ordered by Pyotr Rachkovsky, Chief of the Russian secret service in Paris (foreign intelligence branch of Russian political police – Russian Imperial equivalent of Ausland-SD in RSHA).

However, the reasons for this project are still unclear, to put it mildly. Rachkovsky never demonstrated any particular animosity towards the Jews – on the contrary, some of his most successful agents were Jewish.

At that time, Russian political police – and the whole Russian government – wanted to put an end to Jewish pogroms (rightfully considering them a major threat to imperial security) and dealt harshly with those who committed then – up to using deadly force; so, it had no desire to publish anything that would incite even one extra pogrom. So, the whole thing is still a mystery.

The Nazis were so confident that the Jewish plan for world domination presented in the Protocols was real that right after NSDAP and Hitler personally acquired almost dictatorial powers in Germany, distillations of the work were assigned by German teachers, as if they were factual, to be read by German schoolchildren throughout Germany.

So, not surprisingly, Protocols of the Elders of Zion became the first “slab in the stack” that 40 years later launched the “Holocaust Avalanche”.

The Avalanche that killed four million Jews.