THE PROTOCOLS of Zionism: MYTH AND HISTORY

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"ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH

This publication was prepared by Kenneth Jacobson, Director,
Middle Eastern Affairs Department, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith

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THE PROTOCOLS: MYTH AND HISTORY

When the government went about selling its expansionist foreign policy to the German people, it spoke of defensive actions to preclude encirclement by the nations under Jewish domination. Then in 1939, when it was becoming increasingly evident that war would result from further German expansion, Hitler blamed the coming conflict on the Jewish conspiracy: "Today I will once more be a prophet; if the interna- tional Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."

One might say as two recent scholars have suggested, that the "Plan of Basel" was actually the precedent for the Nazi regime itself. So Hannah Arendt has written in The Origins of Totalitarianism that "The Nazis started with the fiction of a conspiracy and modeled themselves, more or less consciously, after the example of the secret society of the Elders of Zion...." Leon Poliakov, author of The Third Reich and the

Jews, noted that the Nazis immersed themselves in the Protocols and other such literature and ended by transforming these horrible ideas into a more horrible reality. And Norman Cohn has suggested that there is much to say for this hypothesis:

The ruthless struggle of a band of conspirators to achieve world-domination — a world-empire based on a small but highly organized and regimented people — utter contempt for humanity at large—a glorying in destruction and mass mis- ery—all these things are to be found in the Protocols, and they were of the very essence of the Nazi regime. To put it all with due caution; in this preposterous fabrication from the days of the Russian pogroms Hitler heard the call of a kindred spirit, and he responded to it with all his being.

Finally, when the Nazis decided on genocide they justified that too as a case of self-defense, kill or be killed. Hitler had once said: "I have

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read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—it simply appalled me. The stealthiness of the enemy, and his ubiquity! I saw at once that we must copy it—in our own way, of course... It is in truth the critical battle for the fate of the world." (Quoted in Herman Rauschning's Hitler Speaks). Yet, having exterminated European Jewry, the Nazis found themselves in 1944 a defeated nation. But there was an explanation and the Propa- ganda Ministry supplied it: "The central issue of this war is the break- ing of Jewish world-domination. If it were possible to checkmate the 300 secret Jewish kings who rule the world, the peoples of this earth would at last find their peace."

The ultimate explanation of the Nazi defeat, however, came from none other than Adolf Eichmann, chief administrator of the extermina- tion. Norman Cohn described it:

At his trial at Jerusalem in 1961 Eichmann maintained that Hitler himself was nothing but a pawn and a marionette in the hands of "the satanic international high-finance of the western world"—meaning of course, the mysterious, undiscoverable and omnipotent Elders of Zion.

In closing, the following words of British historian Christopher Sykes sums up the situation quite well:

One can see why the Protocols go on being read. It is painful to have to admit the truth of anything that Hitler said, but there can be no doubt that when he declared in Mein Kampf that the masses find vast untruths more credible than small ones, and that in consequence those who use a lie in propaganda work should always tell a big lie, he showed an uncanny degree of shrewdness. This is one of the biggest lies ever devised by a liar, and for that reason there will for long be fools to believe it.

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