Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (2012) 11-30; 4,2: 679-706
Keywords:
Brasol, Boris,
;
Ford, Henry,
;
Protocols of the wise men of Zion
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Boris Brasol (1885-1963), or Brazol, was a Russian judicial official and military officer who spent much of his life as a tireless promoter of anti-Jewish hatred. Later in his life, Brasol boasted that his writings had "done the Jews more injury than would have been done to them by ten pogroms". His first appearance in this capacity was during the Beilis trial in Kiev; Brasol not only believed that Beilis was guilty, but also that there were other Jews behind Beilis's alleged crime. From 1916 on, Brasol lived in the USA where he was instrumental in the translation and dissemination of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". From the early 1920s, Brasol collaborated with Henry Ford and, according to some accounts, served as a secret intermediary and bag man between Ford and the nascent Nazi Party. Among his contacts were Russian White émigrés such as the pogromist ataman Semyonov and the notorious antisemite Cherep-Spiridovich, and U.S. right-wing extremists such as Laura Ingalls, William D. Pelley, and Charles Coughlin. Although he had no personal contacts with Charles Lindbergh, he stated that the murder of Lindbergh's child in 1932 was a Jewish ritual. In the 1930s Brasol, who visited Germany almost every year, provided the Nazis with "proof" of Jewish conspiratorial activities. During all of his life Brasol believed that the Russian revolution of 1917 was an enterprise of Jacob Schiff, Max Warburg, and other American Jewish bankers. After 1945 he joined the McCarthy campaign, to which he tried to render an anti-Jewish character.
Note:
Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the blue lamoo.
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