The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"
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Chapters (110)
- THE HISTORY OF A LIE
- A STUDY
- HERMAN BERNSTEIN
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER ONE
- THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS
- The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy—Is There a Jewish Conspiracy?—Anonymous Accusations—The Mysterious “Protocols” of Sergei Nilus—How did “Nilus” Secure Them?—Contradictory Explanations—Who is “Nilus”?—How his Sponsors Disagree—What Russian Publicists Say.
- CHAPTER TWO
- THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS WERE FABRICATED
- Essence of “Protocols” Was German Fiction of “Sir John Retcliffe”—Who Was “Retcliffe”?—His Infamous Record—His Bloodcurdling Story—The Meeting in the Cemetery—An Avowed Myth—Meeting Every Hundred Years Attended by “Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel”—The “Son of the Accursed” Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes.
- (Translation) FOREWORD
- CHAPTER THREE
- FICTION FORGED INTO “FACT”
- The Lie in its Second Stage—The Tale Becomes “Fact”—The “Rabbi’s” Speech—Its Authenticity Vouched for by “Retcliffe”—An Illuminating Footnote—A Dedication to the Russian “Black Hundreds”—The Imaginary “Speech” Bears Witness to Authenticity of “Protocols,” Themselves Based on “Speech”—Three Stages of the Lie.
- CHAPTER FOUR
- THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY
- Nilus on the Protocols—Only “the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia” Can Save the World—Passages from Nilus Omitted by Translators—On Tolstoy—On the Emancipation of Women—On the “Sanhedrin” and “its Faithful Ally, England.”
- CHAPTER FIVE
- FORGERS DISAGREE
- The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be Confounded with “Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.—The “Symbolic Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every Jew Familiar with Plot.
- CHAPTER SIX
- THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES
- Russia in 1905—The Unsuccessful Revolution—The Reaction and the Reactionaries—Lutostansky and His Work—The “Symbolic Snake” According to Lutostansky—Who Plagiarized?—Lutostansky on the English People—Are the English the “Lost Tribes”?—How the Protocols Were “Doctored” by Butmi—Conclusion.
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