Although most leading Nazis realized that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a spurious document, they found it useful in promoting belief in the international Jewish conspiracy of which they were already convinced. Authorship and other details were irrelevant, they averred, if the book expressed “inner truth.”The GPA includes the introduction to a Nazi edition of the Protocols.
Additions, with occasional commentary, to my on-line collection of propaganda from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic
Friday, August 7, 2015
Nazi Uses of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
Holocaust and Genocide Studies just published my article “Believing in ‘Inner Truth’: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Nazi Propaganda, 1933-1945.” Here’s the abstract:
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