Before i post links, quotes and arguements about
The Protocols of the Elders Of zion, I would like to make it clear that i
Do not want
this thread turn into a Jew bashing topic. Feel free to post your opinons or add anything to the subject.
What is The Protocols Of Elders Of Zion?
The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the most notorious and
most successful work of modern antisemitism, draws on popular
antisemitic notions which have their roots in medieval Europe from
the time of the Crusades. The libels that the Jews used blood of
Christian children for the Feast of Passover, poisoned the wells
and spread the plague were pretexts for the wholesale destruction
of Jewish communities throughout Europe. Tales were circulated
among the masses of secret rabbinical conferences whose aim was
to subjugate and exterminate the Christians, and motifs like these
are found in early antisemitic literature.
The conceptual inspiration for the Protocols can be traced
back to the time of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th
century. At that time, a French Jesuit named Abbe Barruel,
representing reactionary elements opposed to the revolution,
published in 1797 a treatise blaming the Revolution on a secret
conspiracy operating through the Order of Freemasons. Barruel's
idea was nonsense, since the French nobility at the time was heavily
Masonic, but he was influenced by a Scottish mathematician named
Robison who was opposed to the Masons. In his treatise, Barruel
did not himself blame the Jews, who were emancipated as a result
of the Revolution. However, in 1806, Barruel circulated a forged
letter, probably sent to him by members of the state police opposed
to Napoleon Bonaparte's liberal policy toward the Jews, calling
attention to the alleged part of the Jews in the conspiracy he had
earlier attributed to the Masons. This myth of an international Jewish
conspiracy reappeared later on in 19th century Europe in places such
as Germany and Poland.
What did Hitler have to say about this?
In The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945, Nora Levin states that "Hitler used the Protocols as a manual in his war to
exterminate the Jews":
Despite conclusive proof that the Protocols were a gross forgery, they had sensational popularity and large sales in the 1920's and 1930's. They
were translated into every language of Europe and sold widely in Arab lands, the United States, and England. But it was in Germany after World War I
that they had their greatest success. There they were used to explain all of the disasters that had befallen the country: the defeat in the war, the
hunger, the destructive inflation (19).
In contrast to Hitler's rantings (below), Nazi leader Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky admitted that there really was no "Jewish menace" (jüdische
Gefahr) -- to use Hitler's own phrase in Mein Kampf -- or conspiracy for world domination:
I am the only living witness but I must say the truth. Contrary to the opinion of the National Socialists, that the Jews were a highly organized
group, the appalling fact was that they had no organization whatsoever. The mass of the Jewish people were taken complete by surprise. They did not
know at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act. This is the greatest lie of anti-Semitism because it gives the
lie to that old slogan that the Jews are conspiring to dominate the world and that they are so highly organized. In reality, they had no organization
of their own at all, not even an information service. If they had had some sort of organization, these people could have been saved by the millions,
but instead, they were taken completely by surprise. Never before has a people gone as unsuspectingly to its disaster. Nothing was prepared.
Absolutely nothing (20).
Hitler and the Protocols
But wait, it does seem that the protocols stirs hate and has helped to build hate towards the jews.
So what is it - fact or fiction?
The earliest copies were apparently written in French. It is generally believed that a copy of the Protocols was in circulation as early as 1884, a
full 13 years before the Basle congress.
The most damning evidence against the document being authentic is that modern scholars have proved that the Protocols was based in part on a satirical
attack on the French Emperor Napoleon III by Maurice Joly, written and printed in Geneva in 1864.
The pamphlet was titled Dialogues from Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu.
In 1868 the German Hermann Goedsche, writing under the pseudonym Sir John Radcliffe, adapted Joly's pamphlet and turned it into a mythical tale of a
Jewish conspiracy as part of a series of novels entitled Biarritz.
In it he writes of a secret centennial rabbinical conference which meets at midnight and whose purpose is to review the past 100 years and to plan the
next century.
These two documents - the pamphlet and the novel - were later reworked into a document titled the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was taken to
Russia in 1895 and printed privately in 1897.
Throughout its history it has been used in the cause of anti-semitism and forms an integral part of a long history of the demonisation of Judaism and
Jews.
Fake 'Protocols' Aims to Stir Hatred for Jews
From looking it does seem that the only thing the protocol has done, is helped to build anti-semtic views and genocide. Now, do i think the document
is a fake? yes. The document appeared during the time of the begining of the Zionist movement and it does make sense that this document was made to
crush Zionism. I feel that the authors of the document wanted the world to think that Zionist and Jews want world domination, this is far from the
truth. Zionism is about returning Jews back to their homeland, Israel, and building a Jewish state. But Zionism does have its bad points, hidden
agendas,etc but this is a totally different subject. The document was intended to stir up hate against jews and that is what it has acheived.
im reading through the links now 
