Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2005) 137-145
Keywords:
Protocols of the wise men of Zion
;
Antisemitism History 1918-1933
;
Anti-Jewish propaganda History 20th century
Abstract:
Traces the publishing history of the "Protocols" in Weimar Germany, first by the "Völkisch" movement and then by the Nazis. Quotes the editor of the 1924 edition, Theodor Fritsch, as well as Hitler in "Mein Kampf", who stress the importance of seeing the danger of the Jewish world conspiracy clearly and fighting it. These and other authors argue that even if the "Protocols" are a falsification, they have a "higher authenticity" as a faithful mirror of inborn Jewish villainy and scheming and an exposure of Jewish wirepulling as the moving force behind all of recent history. Also describes dissemination of the "Protocols" by Henry Ford, and mentions its use by Islamist and anti-communist groups today. Defines the "Protocols" as myth. Asserts that its simplicity and universal applicability, but above all its very irrationality, bordering on the psychotic, work on a supposedly enlightened public.
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