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 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" 
 
 "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all" 
 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 A STUDY 
 
 BY 
 
 HERMAN BERNSTEIN 
 AUTHOR OF "Wrrn MASTER MINDS," ETC. 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 57 ROSE STREET
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY
 
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 Annex 
 
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 FOREWORD 
 
 This is the history of a Lie of a cruel and terrible 
 Lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jew- 
 ish people. Given out as fiction, by a German anti- 
 Semitic writer, involved in the Waldcck forgery case, who 
 concealed his identity under the pen-name of an English-' 
 man, it was gradually changed and elaborated, and finally 
 groomed as fact. Agents of the Russian secret police 
 department and of the unscrupulous "Black Hundreds" 
 then utilized this fiction as the framework for the "pro- 
 tocols" through which they sought to crush the Jews and 
 prop up the tottering Russian dynasty. 
 
 Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, 
 still dreaming of their past glory and of a restoration of 
 their privileges, are at work again, both here and abroad. 
 
 Out of the scraphcap of Russian autocracy, they have 
 exhumed their old weapons and are striking at the Jews 
 again. Upon the structure of the old myths they are 
 striving to erect new falsehoods in order to intensify 
 everywhere chaos and confusion and dissatisfaction so 
 that they may attain their own dastardly and selfish ends. 
 
 In the war's aftermath the Jews are being blamed by 
 the minions of autocracy and reaction for all the ills that 
 have befallen mankind. Some blame them for the war, 
 and others for the peace. Some attack them for the 
 defeat of the German military machine, and others^ 
 for the victory of the allies. In Germany they are at- 
 tacked by the Junkers for having opposed the submarine 
 warfare and thus assured Germany's defeat; while in 
 some of the allied countries the Jews are denounced for 
 constituting "the brains of Germany," 411 the revolu- 
 3 
 
 2042110
 
 4 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 tionary leaders of Germany are credited to the Jews, and 
 bolshevism, which has as little in common with Judaism 
 as it has with Christianity, is branded as a Jewish move- 
 ment; and there are Jew-baiters -who in their blind 
 madness have gone so far as to declare that ex-Kaiser 
 Wilhelm was not only influenced by the Jews but is him- 
 self of Jewish descent, and for this reason did not 
 defend Germany as loyally as he should have done. He 
 conspired against the Hohenzollern dynasty and under- 
 mined it. He destroyed his own throne because he was 
 serving the secret Jewish world organisation. 
 
 On such absurdities have people been fed, since the 
 armistice, in civilized countries by antisemitic agitators 
 and their dupes, while Jews have been slaughtered in the 
 Ukraine, in Poland and in Hungary. 
 
 I submit in this little book the documentary evidence 
 showing how the so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men 
 of Zion" on which this new crusade is predicated, were 
 forged. 
 
 HERMAN BERNSTEIN. 
 New York, February,
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 3 
 
 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 ........ ......... 7 
 
 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 Rec- 
 ordHis 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 At- 
 tends and Provides Comic Interludes ..... .16 
 
 CHAPTER THREE 
 FICTION FORGED INTO 'TACT" 
 
 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 
 Li ........... ....... 43 
 
 i
 
 ii CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 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 Emanci- 
 pation of Women On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful 
 Ally, England" 55 
 
 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 . ... . . . . . : 59 
 
 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 
 Wcr "Doctored" by Butmi Conclusion . . x . A 63
 
 CHAPTER ONE 
 THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS 
 
 The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy Is There a Jewish Con- 
 spiracy? Anonymous Accusations The Mysterious "Proto- 
 cols" of Sergei Nilus How did "Nilus" Secure Them? 
 Contradictory Explanations Who is "Nilus"? How his 
 Sponsors Disagree What Russian Publicists Say. 
 
 Is there a Jewish conspiracy against the world or is 
 there a conspiracy against the Jews? What are the so- 
 called "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion?" Who is 
 "the Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus, the sponsor of the 
 Protocols? What forces are behind the anti-Jewish 
 propaganda that is international in scope and that seeks 
 at this time to spread all over the world the poison of 
 prejudice and hatred against the Jews, reviving long- 
 exploded mediaeval legends? 
 
 Many Americans have asked these questions ever since 
 the publication of "The Cause of the World Unrest," 
 "The Protocols and World Revolution," "The Protocols 
 of the Wise Men of Zion," and the anti- Jewish articles in 
 Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent. 
 
 In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports 
 to be a book by one Sergius Nilus was published in Ger- 
 many. During 1920 a translation was published in Eng- 
 land under the name of "The Jewish Peril," and under 
 various titles, in different versions, it was reproduced in 
 the United States, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland 
 and even Japan. The Japanese edition is in the Russian 
 language. In all these books "the Russian mystic," 
 Sergius Nilus, is given as the sponsor of a number of 
 secret "documents" by which it is intended to show that 
 7
 
 IB [THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 the Jews are responsible for all the ills that have already 
 befallen the world and that are still to come. 
 
 The method is simple. Was there a revolution in Rus- 
 sia? Blame the Jews. Was there a revolution in Ger- 
 many? Blame the Jews. Who made the French Revo- 
 lution? The Jews. Who caused the World War? The 
 Jews. Who profited by the war? The Jews. Is there 
 anywhere an industrial crisis? The Jews are, of course, 
 the cause of it. Has the World War brought forth Bol- 
 shevism ? The Jews are naturally the fathers of it. First 
 the Jews engineered the war, and then they pulled the 
 strings behind the scenes of the Peace Conference. They 
 secured special privileges at the Peace Table, because, 
 according to the Protocols, they control the gold of the 
 world, the press of the world, the rulers of the world. 
 And if, as a result of the World War, millions of Jews 
 have suffered untold agonies, persecution, starvation, and 
 pogroms, it is no doubt only part of their deep-laid plot 
 to gain control of the world for Zion through poverty 
 and suffering! 
 
 Are governments just to the Jews, giving them 
 equal rights ? Then it is obvious that Jews are either at 
 the head of such governments or are hidden behind the 
 present rulers. If the Jews cannot exert sufficient in- 
 fluence over the rulers themselves, there are Jewesses 
 in high places, through whom the cause of Zion is served 
 and all this is done by the Jews with but one aim in 
 view to dominate the world, to become its autocratic 
 masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom 
 and set up Israel as "the despot" over the peoples of the 
 earth. According to the Protocols, all this is engineered 
 with the aid and through the instrumentality of the Free- 
 masons. 
 
 The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England,
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 9 
 
 France, the Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United 
 States, basing all their arguments on the "Protocols" 
 vouched for by "the Russian mystic" Sergius Nilus, see 
 in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment 
 of the prophecies outlined by the so-called "Wise Men 
 of Zion" years ago. The propagandists are violent and 
 vicious, foaming at their mouths, appealing to the basest 
 passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their fingers at 
 "the source of all evil" at the Jews who constitute but 
 a fraction of one per cent of the world's population, and 
 who are in Europe to-day, after the close of the World 
 War, more wretched and miserable than ever before, 
 persecuted, hounded and starved. 
 
 What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they 
 come to "the Russian mystic" who revealed them in 1905, 
 and which have now been exhumed from obscurity for 
 the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point 
 to the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and con- 
 fusion? 
 
 Nilus, "the Russian mystic," is credited with several 
 versions of how he had secured the Protocols, and his 
 stories flatly contradict one another. In 1905 he said 
 that the Protocols were given to him by a prominent Rus- 
 sian conservative whose name he did not mention, and 
 who in turn had received them from an unnamed woman 
 who had stolen them from "one of the most influential 
 leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a secret meeting 
 of the initiated in France." Then, several years later, 
 Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the 
 Protocols from "the headquarters of the Society of Zion 
 in France." Several years afterwards, in a new edition 
 of his book, Nilus said that the "Protocols" came from 
 Switzerland and not from France. This time he named 
 his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died
 
 to THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 in the meantime. He added that the Protocols were not 
 Jewish- Masonic but Zionist documents secretly read at 
 the Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897. 
 
 Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing 
 the date of 1917. A translation of this edition has re- 
 cently appeared in this country, containing a brand-new 
 explanation as to how the Protocols were rescued and 
 given to the world. This explanation is taken from the 
 German version published in Charlottenburg. The intro- 
 duction to that edition says that the Protocols, having 
 been read from day to day at the Basle Congress, were 
 sent as read to Frankfort on the Main. The disclosure 
 of them came through the infidelity of the messenger. 
 
 The 1917 edition is published with a prologue and an 
 epilogue, like a drama, which indeed it is, with all the 
 ingredients of melodrama a villain, a mysterious woman, 
 a Grand Duke, a conspiracy to destroy the world, and a 
 saint Nilus, who convicts himself in his own writings 
 of falsification in the giving of these various accounts of 
 how the Protocols came into his possession. 
 
 Nothing is known of Sergius Nilus. Russian standard 
 reference books and encyclopedias contain no mention of 
 his name. 
 
 The anonymous American editor of the Nilus book 
 gives the following information about Nilus: 
 
 "Serge Nilus, in the 1905 edition of whose book was 
 first published the Zionist Protocols, was, as he states, 
 born in the year 1862, of Russian parents holding liberal 
 opinions. His family was fairly well known in Moscow, 
 for its members were educated people who were firm in 
 their allegiance to the Tsar and the Greek Church. On 
 one side he is said to have been connected by marriage 
 with the nobility of the Baltic provinces. Nilus Himself 
 was graduated from the University of Moscow and early
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE n 
 
 entered the civil service, obtaining a small appointment 
 in the law courts. Later, he received a post under the 
 Procurator of a provincial court in the Caucasus. Finally, 
 tiring of the law, he went to the Government of Orel, 
 where he was a landowner and a noble. His spiritual life 
 had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he 
 entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow. 
 'In answer to his appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern 
 and angry, appeared to him twice in a vision. He left 
 the Monastery a converted man.' 
 
 "From 1905 until the present, little is known of his 
 activities. Articles are said to have appeared from time 
 to time in the Russian press from his pen. A returning 
 traveller from Siberia in August, 1919, was positive in his 
 statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk in June of that 
 year. Whether his final fate was that of Admiral Kolchak 
 is not known." 
 
 The American editor of Sergius Nilus's book containing 
 the "Protocols" is hiding behind anonymity. The name 
 of the traveller from Siberia who was so positive in his 
 statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also concealed. 
 And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei "appeared twice 
 in a vision" "is said to have written articles in the Rus- 
 sian press" of which nobody has knowledge. 
 
 In Germany, Nilus is described as follows : 
 
 "Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret 
 police department, of the okhrana, connected with the 
 Church, especially relating to 'foreign religions.' He lived 
 for some time at the Optina Pustina monastery. In 1901 
 he published a book entitled The Great in the Small and 
 the Anti-Christ.' According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus 
 claims to have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the 
 Protocols from the secret archives of the Main Zionist 
 organization in France, but he published the 'protocols'
 
 12 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 only in 1905. A second edition appeared in 1911, and 
 finally another edition was brought out in the beginning 
 of 1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed." 
 
 "The Cause of the World Unrest," an anonymous book 
 published in England and reprinted in this country, speaks 
 of Nilus and the "Protocols" as follows: 
 
 "In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a 
 book entitled The Great in Little. The second edition, 
 which was published at Tsarskoye Selo in 1905, had an 
 additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading 'Anti- 
 Christ as a Near Political Possibility/ This chapter con- 
 sisted of some twenty pages of introduction followed by 
 the text of twenty-four 'Protocols of Meetings of the 
 Learned Elders of Zion,' and the book ends with some 
 twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus. 
 
 "Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by 
 Nilus that they are 'signed by representatives of Zion 
 of the thirty-third degree.' These protocols were secretly 
 extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of proto- 
 cols. All this was got by my correspondent out of the 
 secret depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This 
 Chancellery is at present on French territory." 
 
 In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote : 
 
 "My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is 
 only definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of 
 belief, and that through Jewish sources, that these protocols 
 are nothing other than the strategic plans for the conquest of 
 the world under the heel of Israel, and worked out by the 
 leaders of the Jewish people and read by the 'Prince of Exile,' 
 Theodor Herzl, during the first Zionist Congress, summoned by 
 him in August, 1897, in Basle." 
 
 It will be shown later that the so-called Butmi edition 
 of the "protocols" published in 1907 contains the definite 
 statement of the man who claims to have translated them
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 13 
 
 into Russian from the French in 1901 that the Elders of 
 Zioi mentioned in the Protocols are not to be confounded 
 with the Zionist movement. 
 
 In the 1917 edition Sergius Nilus wrote: 
 
 "In 1901 I came into possession of a manuscript, and this 
 comparatively small book was destined to cause a deep change 
 in my entire viewpoint as can only be caused in the heart of 
 man by Divine Power. It was comparable with the miracle of 
 making the blind see. 'May Divine acts show on him.' 
 
 "This manuscript was called 'the protocols of the Zionist 
 Men of Wisdom,' and it was given to me by the now deceased 
 leader of the Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor 
 of Stavropol, Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin. I had already 
 begun to work with my pen for the glory of the Lord, and I 
 was friendly with Sukhotin. He was a man of my opinion, 
 that is, extremely conservative, as they are now termed. 
 
 "Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manu- 
 script from a lady who always lived abroad. This lady was a 
 noblewoman from Tchernigov. He mentioned her by name, but 
 I have forgotten it. He said that she obtained it in some mys- 
 terious way, by theft, I believe. 
 
 "Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was 
 given by this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, 
 upon her return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently 
 killed. He said other things of the same mysterious character. 
 But when I first became acquainted with the contents of the 
 manuscript I was convinced that its terrible, cruel and straight- 
 forward truth is witness of its true origin from the 'Zionist Men 
 of Wisdom/ and that no other evidence of its origin would be 
 needed." 
 
 Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia's most famous lib- 
 erals, a member of the nobility, a former member of the 
 Duma, writing recently of the Nilus protocols and of 
 Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own 
 opinion, says : 
 
 "For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its 
 success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was 
 a Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It
 
 14 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 
 
 is said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, 
 the notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk. 
 
 "The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in 
 that edition Nilus said, 'Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.' 
 
 "The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevtich Sukhotin 
 means nothing to the present generation. But there was a time 
 when his name attracted attention. 
 
 "Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for re- 
 fusing to cart manure from his stables because the animals 
 there were infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the 
 peasants. Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justi- 
 fied his act by writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, 
 that he had arrested the peasants not because they refused to 
 cart his manure but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo 
 official. The reactionary Chersnk nobility made Sukhotin mar- 
 shal of nobility. So it was this man who furnished the protocols 
 of the secret meetings of the representatives of Zion 1 But 
 how did Sukhotin get the protocols? An unknown friend had 
 brought them to him. They were given to him by an unknown 
 lady who had received them from an unknown but energetic 
 participant in the Basle Congress. Is this credible? Well, 
 then, there is another version of the origin of the protocols 
 but that is for the German readers. The Russian government 
 sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the Con- 
 gress himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was 
 carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local 
 masonic organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, 
 and gave the protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who 
 worked all night and 9opied the protocols. 
 
 "In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to 
 have been brought to Russia in French. According to the Ger- 
 man version, the protocols were copied, consequently they were 
 in German, but the most important thing is that the protocols 
 are not protocols at all, but a monograph which could be called 
 'the dream of a member of the Black Hundreds.'" 
 
 A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor 
 of the "protocols" as follows : 
 
 "In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have 
 been studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor 
 Troitzky, Professor Kokovtsev, Kartashov, Bulgakov, Berdyayev
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 15 
 
 men of profound intellect and a living conscience. In them 
 the counterfeit ravings of the ignorant monk (Nilus) evoked 
 but a smile of contempt. The low level of the circles in which 
 men like Nilus moved and worked is only too well known. It 
 was the world of police denunciations, divorce perjuries, mo- 
 nastic servility and feigned, blasphemous piety. In order to 
 attract attention, Nilus's 'Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' 
 had to emigrate from Russia. And the further away they went, 
 the better they fared."
 
 CHAPTER TWO 
 
 THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS 
 WERE FABRICATED 
 
 Essence of "Protocols" Was German Fiction of "Sir John Ret- 
 cliffe" Who Was "Retcliff e" ? 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 Inter- 
 ludes. 
 
 The query now naturally arises, what is the origin of 
 these much heralded "Protocols" which were published 
 in Russia by Sergius Nilus in 1905, and a copy of which, 
 it is triumphantly announced, is now in the British 
 Museum ? 
 
 The anti-Jewish propagandists everywhere content 
 themselves with the "history" of the origin of the "Pro- 
 tocols" as given by the "Russian mystic" Sergius Nilus. 
 But fortunately "murder will out," and the criminals who 
 perpetrated the stupendous forgery for the purpose of 
 slandering the Jews have left behind clues that enable 
 one to visualize the very process that they pursued in 
 the perpetration of their crime. 
 
 In 1866-1870 there appeared in Berlin a series of novels 
 entitled "Biarritz Rome" purporting to have been writ- 
 ten by "Sir John Retcliffe," the pseudonym of Herman 
 Goedsche, a German novelist with an unsavory past. To 
 conceal his identity and to convey the impression that 
 the antisemitism with which his writings abounded 
 emanated from English sources, he selected "Sir John 
 Retcliffe" as his pen-name. 
 
 According to Meyer's Konversations Lexikon (Sixth 
 16
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 17 
 
 edition, 1904, Volume VIII, page 77), Herman Goedsche 
 was born in February, 1815, in Trachenberg, Silesia, and 
 died on November 8, 1878, at Warmbrunn. He was em- 
 ployed in the postal service, but as he was implicated in 
 the Waldeck forgery case, he left the service in 1849, an d 
 devoted himself to literary work. Under the name of 
 "Armin" he published a number of works of fiction, but 
 he was best known under the name of "Sir John Ret- 
 cliffe," having published a series of sensational novels 
 describing the Crimean war, "Sebastopol," "Rena-Sahib," 
 "Villafranca," "Puebla," "Biarritz," in 1866. A new edi- 
 tion of these works appeared in Berlin in 1903-4. 
 
 Brockhaus' Konversations Lexikon (supplement vol- 
 ume XVII, 1904) refers to Goedsche, the novelist, known 
 under the name of "Sir John Retcliffe" (formerly 
 "Armin"), as having played an infamous role in the 
 Waldeck forgery case. He was compelled to leave the 
 postal service, and later became a member of the staff of 
 the Preussische Kreutz Zeitung. 
 
 The chapter of the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which on 
 even a cursory reading will be found to contain the very 
 essence of the Nilus Protocols was published as a sepa- 
 rate booklet in a Russian translation in 1872, avowedly 
 as a work of fiction. I have found a copy of this little 
 volume in the Russian Department of the Library of 
 Congress, Washington, D. C. 
 
 An examination of this chapter, entitled "The Jewish 
 Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives 
 of the Twelve Tribes of Israel," will disclose the fact 
 that every substantive statement contained in the Protocols 
 and elaborated in them is to be found in the Goedsche- 
 Retcliffe novelette. 
 
 We are thus supplied with an early draft of the so- 
 called Protocols, which have now been given worldwide
 
 18 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 publicity by anti-Jewish propagandists, and which were 
 first introduced to the world in the form of a clumsy 
 piece of blood-curdling fiction of the dime-novel variety. 
 In substantiation of this statement I now present a 
 translation of this chapter of the Russian version of this 
 novel found in the Library of Congress in Washington, 
 published in St. Petersburg nearly fifty years ago.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
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 DO uofiss, y EpyriAio PUSKA,- }& & 
 
 1872; 
 
 FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF THE FANTASTIC STORY PUBLISHED IN 
 RUSSIA IN 1872, CONTAINING THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE PROTOCOLS IN 
 THE FORM OF FICTION.
 
 20 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 Translation of Title Page 
 THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE 
 
 And 
 
 THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel 
 
 ST. PETERSBURG 
 
 Printed by the Association "Obschestvenaya Polza 1 
 
 On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5 
 
 1872
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 21 
 
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 FACSIMILE OK THE FOREWORD TO THE STORY PUBLISHED IN 1872, 
 SHOWING THAT THE AUTHOR REGARDED IT AS A "LEGENDARY STORY," 
 COLORED BY THE AUTHOR'S "FANTASTIC IMAGINATION."
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 (Translation) 
 FOREWORD 
 
 "The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and 
 the legendary story of the meeting of the representatives 
 of the twelve tribes of Israel are borrowed from the 
 historico-political novel by Sir John Radcliff, 'To Sedan/ 
 published in the magazine edited by Nicholas Stepanovitch 
 Lvoff. 
 
 "The contents of the legend are not the invention of 
 Radcliff himself; rather Radcliff, with his characteristic 
 fantastic imagination, collected various parts into one 
 whole and painted all with poetic colors, which strike one 
 perhaps by their excessive gaudiness, but which are never- 
 theless interesting." 
 
 Passed by the Censor, St. Petersburg, May 17, 1872 
 
 This product of "Radcliff's fantastic imagination," the 
 work of one experienced in the perpetration of forgeries, 
 will now be permitted to tell its own story. It requires 
 no commentary. It clearly foreshadows the protocols, 
 with all its accompaniment of melodrama, not even omit- 
 ting the Devil, himself. 
 
 THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE 
 
 and 
 The Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel 
 
 "The Jewish quarter of Prague represents a remarkable 
 labyrinth of crooked and narrow streets; it is situated in the 
 outskirts of Prague which witnessed numerous bloody episodes 
 of Bohemian and German history. The dwellers of the dirty 
 and dilapidated houses of this quarter are engaged in petty
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 23 
 
 trading and profiteering in their own as well as in other parts 
 of the city. Prague is the only city in Germany where the 
 Jews live entirely isolated from the nation whose name they 
 have taken in order to avail themselves of the privileges of the 
 city population and to exploit it for their own purposes. The 
 Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the rag- fair in Vienna 
 and the Temple in Paris. In these places deals amounting to 
 thousands are transacted daily. 
 
 "If you take a few steps along this dirty, foul market-place, 
 you will suddenly come upon an old, high, decayed wall which 
 surrounds a space of from two to three acres. Elder-trees and 
 other wild shrubbery wind around this wall. Old Jewish houses 
 are crowded all along near this wall, threatened with destruc- 
 tion at any moment. The strange circle formed by this wall 
 has an unwelcome, puzzling appearance. 
 
 "This is the city of the dead the renowned Prague cemetery. 
 
 "In this abode of rest may be seen the spirit of the nation, 
 whose bones found shelter here after long wandering, here is 
 stamped all its history, full of sufferings, struggles and re- 
 sistance. 
 
 "It seems as though at any moment these tombs, overgrown 
 with shrubbery, are ready to open, these stones growing for 
 thousands of years are ready to raise themselves, and to let out 
 into the world the restless wanderer with a pack upon his 
 shoulder, with a staff in his hand, in order to go again to 
 strange peoples, to cheat and combat them and to seek a new 
 Canaan his dominion! The Jewish cemetery in Prague is the 
 very oldest cemetery known. It was closed by order of the 
 government a hundred years ago. For foreigners it is a 
 historical landmark; for the Jews it is a sacred place. The 
 impression of this deserted spot is intensified by its surround- 
 ings. Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, over- 
 grown with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost 
 entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed. 
 
 "During the inspection, the watchman will tell the visitor the 
 history of the death of Rabbi Ben Manasseh, the great conqueror 
 of death, and Rabbi Loewe, the most learned Rabbi of the i7th 
 century; he will speak of Simon the Just and of the Polish 
 princess Anna Shmiless. He will then lead the visitor to the 
 monument of Anna Kohn on which can be read the mysterious 
 figure 606, which shows that the Jews, more than twelve hundred
 
 24 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 years ago, had buried their dead here, in the legendary times of 
 Lyubush and her daughters. 
 
 "If we are not to believe this figure, we must nevertheless 
 agree with the opinion of the Jews that this is the oldest settle- 
 ment and the first Jewish community in Europe. 
 
 "Silently the Jewish guide and the curious foreigner go by 
 one place where under an old lilac bush a heap of stone stands 
 out, and when the foreigner asks, What is this?' the guide 
 gives an evasive answer 
 
 '"Beth Chaim the house of life/ Thus is the cemetery 
 called. Yes, indeed, this place of rest is a house of life, for 
 from here is given the mysterious impulse which makes the 
 exiles masters of the earth and tyrants of nations, the impulse 
 which directs the golden calf to the chosen tribe. 
 
 "The Jewish town has assumed a holiday aspect The stands 
 of the petty retailers have disappeared; Jewish boys and girls 
 were strolling about in their holiday attire. The houses and 
 windows were adorned with green branches. On the old benches 
 sat men, talking seriously; in the alleys youths were chatting. 
 From time to time men and women in their best Sabbath clothes 
 were going to the synagogue, carrying prayer books in their 
 hands ; while poor Christian women whom need had forced 
 to work in this quarter were running with keys and dishes in 
 order to prepare for the feast. 
 
 "It was the last day of the Feast of Booths, the day of 
 Assembly, and dusk was gathering over the narrow streets, 
 while the Christian part of the city was still brightly illumined 
 by the last rays of the setting sun. t Two men (the older wore 
 a black silk mantle, with long earlocks, which showed that he 
 was a Polish Jew ; the other was middle aged, in modern clothes, 
 with diamond studs in his shirt and a heavy golden chain on 
 his vest) walked along the narrow streets, without paying any 
 attention to the crowd. 
 
 "The younger seemed to be the guide. Having come with his 
 companion to the little house where the watchman of the ceme- 
 tery lived, he knocked at the closed door, through a crevice of 
 which the bright light of wax candles was seen, showing the 
 watchman's holiday mood. It was a good summer a large 
 number of foreigners had visited the cemetery and were gen- 
 erous in their gifts. 
 
 "In the doorway appeared the thin face of the watchman,
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 25 
 
 whose short-sighted eyes began to look fixedly into the darkness. 
 
 " 'Come out into the street, Joel, somebody wants to talk to 
 you!' 
 
 " 'O, God of Justice,' said the watchman with amazement, as 
 he came out of the door, 'One of the trustees! What is your 
 pleasure to command me?' 
 
 "'This Rabbi desires to make a brief prayer in the cemetery; 
 he is leaving to-morrow morning by train.' 
 
 "'In the cemetery? This evening? But you know yourself, 
 Mr. Banker, that I am forbidden to open the gates after sunset, 
 and to-night is also the holy Sabbath.' 
 
 " 'First of all, there is no need for you to shout here about my 
 calling,' replied the banker, displeased. 'Every Jewish rag-picker 
 will know that banker Rosenberg was here to see you. As for 
 the permit to open the gates, I myself, as a trustee, authorize 
 you to do it I will wait here until he has completed his prayer. 
 The company in your house must not know what we are doing 
 here. Arrange it 59 that the curious crowd will not rush in 
 there.' 
 
 "The watchman disappeared in the house, but soon returned 
 with a bunch of keys and opened the gates of the cemetery. 
 He took a lantern along and was about to light it 
 
 "'Don't!' said the Rabbi in a low voice. 'I don't need any 
 light. Lock the gates from the inside!' 
 
 "'But, Mr. von Rosenberg ' 
 
 "'Lock it, I say!' 
 
 "The watchman obeyed. 
 
 " 'Now lead me to the grave of the holy Rabbi Simeon-ben- 
 Yehudah!' 
 
 " 'Hold on to my coat, esteemed sir,' said the watchman. It 
 is dark and you may stumble over the old graves.' 
 
 "'I can see better at night than in the daytime, my son!' 
 answerd the learned Polish Jew. 
 
 " *Here is the grave !' 
 
 "The old Rabbi reverently leaned over the tombstone. The 
 watchman heard him pronounce a prayer in Jewish. He used 
 so many words of ancient Hebrew, or some other words of a 
 language he did not understand, that he knew only a few sepa- 
 rate expressions, although he himself had been in the past a 
 teacher at the Bohemian community. 
 
 "Having completed his prayer, the stranger turned to the 
 watchman of the cemetery:
 
 26 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 " 'When you accepted the position from your predecessor, did 
 he not give you certain instructions?' 
 
 "'Me?' 
 
 " 'Yes, you ! It was so from the day the first person was buried 
 in this place.' 
 
 '"Well, and what if he did give such Instructions, how 
 does that concern you? This is the first time I am asked about 
 this matter since I am employed here.' 
 
 "'Because this happens once in a hundred years, and human 
 life rarely lasts as long as that' 
 
 "'I see that you know about it, Rabbi,' said the frightened 
 watchman. 'But I can obey you only if you mention the word 
 which was given to me by my predecessor, because I took a 
 sacred oath on the Bible.' 
 
 "The Polish Jew bent down and slowly pronounced a word of 
 seven syllables. 
 
 "The watchman bowed respectfully. 
 
 " *You are the Rabbi !' he said. 'All will be done as you com- 
 mand I' 
 
 '"You will send away the friends who are feasting in your 
 house before the clock strikes eleven. At the first stroke you 
 will open the gates of the cemetery, and at the last stroke you 
 will get into your house, lock the doors and windows, lie down 
 in your bed and turn into a corpse together with the members 
 of your household, into a corpse that sees and hears nothing.' 
 
 "1 will neither look nor listen.' 
 
 "The angel of death will leave your soul in your body and 
 will force you to wander about among the graves to the end 
 of time if you do not carry out my orders correctly. Now go, 
 and remember that by virtue of your position you are the 
 servant of the great Jerusalem synagogue. I need not tell you 
 that you should not say anything to that vain, worldly man who 
 brought me here.' 
 
 "Both returned to the gates, near which the banker was still 
 on guard. 
 
 '"Well,' he said, 'your desire is fulfilled, Rabbi, and you may 
 inform my friend in Warsaw that Rosenberg and Son are 
 always ready to do a favor to a guest recommended by such a 
 personage. Now let us go home; my wife is waiting for us.' 
 
 " *Let us go, my son,' replied the Rabbi. 'But relieve me of 
 worldly pleasures, I shall spend the night in prayer 1'
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 27 
 
 "The banker shrugged his shoulders and gave the watchman 
 a gold coin. 
 
 " 'Joel,' he said in a low voice, 'the other trustees of the com- 
 munity must not know about this violation of the rule.' 
 
 "The watchman nodded, and the companion again disappeared 
 in the dark streets, which had already become deserted, while 
 in the houses people talked merrily and the sounds of holiday 
 festivities were heard. 
 
 "How poor, dirty and dark these little houses looked from 
 outside I But it was quite different within ! In the rear rooms 
 of many of these houses the bright light of numerous wax candles 
 was reflected in the splendid high mirrors, in expensive dishes 
 and precious rugs. Girls and women, who in the morning per- 
 haps walked with trays in their hands, now were seated at the 
 tables in heavy silk gowns with golden chains and bracelets; 
 their jewels and diamonds were glittering. 
 
 "The clock in the town-hall tower struck ten. In the chapel, 
 near the statue of St. Nepomucenus, upon a stone bench, sat a 
 large-sized man, with the pale serious face of Germanic type. 
 Every physiognomist, looking at him, would have said that this 
 man had devoted his youth to serious scientific work and that he 
 had spent many sleepless nights over books. 
 
 "The clock had just struck ten when upon the bridge appeared 
 a man in a light summer coat, of about the same age as the 
 young scientist. His face was pale, of waxen color, without the 
 slightest natural red in his cheeks; his particularly prominent 
 nose indicated his Jewish extraction; his forehead was high and 
 large, his head was strongly developed. He walked straight 
 over to the man who was waiting and who quickly arose. 
 
 '"Good evening. I see you have received my letter. Have 
 you it with you?' 
 
 " "Yes, I know it by heart, I have read it so many times. "My 
 friend," it is written there, "I have promised to give you the 
 key to the Caballah, if I ever find the opportunity to do so. 
 Although I am not always in the habit of fulfilling my vows, I 
 am ready to fulfil this one, if you will wait for me in the 
 evening of October 8, in Prague, on the old Moldau bridge, 
 under the statue of Nepomucenus," Then follows your name.'
 
 28 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 " 'Yes, that is correct. Have you not yet given up your de- 
 sire?' 
 
 "'Less than ever beforel You would render science an in- 
 valuable service.' 
 
 " 'Listen, doctor, bend down a little over the rail ; that of 
 which we speak must not be heard even by the waves of the 
 Moldau, if we wish to remain alive.' 
 
 "The young scientist looked in astonishment at his comrade, 
 but did as he desired. 
 
 "'Three years ago, in Rome, when I promised to acquaint 
 you with the mysteries of the Caballah, I did it more for the 
 sake of boasting of a power and authority which, in reality, I 
 did not possess. Although I had studied for some time the 
 traditions of my nation, rather out of curiosity than because of 
 the love of knowledge, I knew very well that I could hardly 
 penetrate the corridor of those mysteries which I am still re- 
 garding as the sophistry and roguishness of exalted minds, in- 
 vented for the purpose of holding fools in fear and subordina- 
 tion. But several accidental discoveries, made by me since 
 then, have changed my views and have aroused in me a sense 
 of curiosity. 
 
 '"You know, notwithstanding our brief acquaintance, that I 
 am not the type of man who would abandon a clue or a con- 
 ceived plan. What has caused me to make you my companion 
 in satisfying my curiosity that does not concern you. It is 
 enough that now we have an opportunity to satisfy our mutual 
 desire, and all depends on whether you will agree to accept 
 the conditions upon which I can make you a partner in my 
 investigation.' 
 
 "'If these are not against honor and conscience.* 
 
 "'In this respect you have nothing to risk, you are rather 
 risking something else your life. Do you feel that you are 
 capable of facing a serious danger?' 
 
 " 'For the sake of science, yes 1' 
 
 "*Very well, in that case I must tell you that I will lead you 
 to a place which we will not leave alive, if our presence is 
 discovered. The slightest suspicion that we were uninvited 
 witnesses of the secret will bring upon us persecution which will 
 kill us sooner or later.' 
 
 "'You are whetting my curiosity, signor!' 
 
 "That is all I wanted to tell you. The other thing you
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 29 
 
 know that I am a Jew by birth. Although the Jews have driven 
 me from their midst and cursed me according to their custom 
 and traditions because I adopted Christianity, still I have my 
 own reasons for stipulating a condition your word of honor 
 that you will be silent about all you will see and hear, until I 
 authorize you to speak.' 
 
 " 'I swear by my honor.' 
 
 "'Very well. You will recall in your investigations of the 
 Caballah that in the mysterious books mention is made of a 
 meeting of the heads or chosen ones of the nation, a meeting 
 which takes place from time to time?' 
 
 "'Yes, in the Yezire it is said very definitely, and if I under- 
 stood correctly, such meetings take place every hundred years.' 
 
 "'Yes. The last meeting took place in 1760 and you recall 
 that shortly afterward the movement of Judaism started. It is 
 now 1787 years since the destruction of Jerusalem and this year is 
 designated for a meeting of the Cabalistic Sanhedrin. This is 
 the day of the meeting; the place is this city. I want to be 
 present at this meeting in spite of the danger and am ready to 
 take you along with me.' 
 
 "'But will it not be dishonest to listen, will it not be an un- 
 lawful interference with other people's secrets?' 
 
 "'Per Bacco! as we Italians say; with such hesitations you 
 must abandon once for all the idea of fulfilling your desire. Or 
 do you think that the people who guard the secret of the 
 Caballah will bring it to you on a tray? As far as I am con- 
 cerned, I shall discover the secret, at any cost!' 
 
 "After reflecting a few minutes, the scientist came to a de- 
 cision. 
 
 "'I shall go with you, come what may!' 
 
 " 'Very well. Now we have agreed. Let us go, there is no 
 time to lose.'" 
 
 "The tower clock of the town-hall struck eleven. At the first 
 stroke a key clicked in the lock of the cemetery gates. Then 
 followed profound silence which indicated that the cemetery 
 was open. The lights in the Jewish houses were gradually 
 dying out, and at the same time the sounds of the merry feast- 
 ing also subsided. 
 
 "Mysterious silence reigned in that terrible place.
 
 30 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "The gates creaked softly; the rustling of long coats was 
 heard, touching the stones and shrubbery; finally a vague white 
 figure appeared and slipped by like a shadow along the path- 
 ways. 
 
 "This figure knelt before one of the tombstones; three times 
 it touched the stone with its forehead and softly whispered a 
 prayer. 
 
 "Along the path leading from the gates came an old man, 
 bent, limping, sighing and coughing. He came over to the 
 ancient tombstone, and lowered himself on his knees near the 
 white figure that had entered before him, and he, too, whispered 
 a prayer. 
 
 "Then heavy footsteps were heard, and a tall, impressive figure 
 appeared on the road, clad in a white mantle, and he, too, 
 fell down on his knees, as though unwillingly, in front of the 
 tombstone. 
 
 "Thirteen times this was repeated. Thirteen old men came 
 over to the tombstone. The doctor counted them, but he could 
 not understand whether they were alive or dead. A shiver 
 crept down his back, his heart began to beat faster from fright. 
 He involuntarily recalled the terrible legend of the Day of 
 Atonement in the tenth month, Tishri, in the synagogue of 
 Posen when, during the prayer of Kol Nidrei, the congregation 
 kept growing larger and larger; unknown people, pushing one 
 another, wrapped in prayer shawls, came in, one hundred after 
 another, until the terrified Rabbi lifted his hand as if 
 to curse and exclaimed : *He who has flesh in his cheeks, 
 let him throw off the prayer shawl!' Hundreds remained cov- 
 ered, and when the prayer shawls were torn away from them, 
 all saw the skulls of the dead who had come out of the graves 
 to celebrate the Day of Atonement with the rest of the congre- 
 gation. 
 
 "As there, it seemed to him that the prayer shawls had fallen 
 off the heads of the praying old men, and a row of dead skulls 
 appeared. At that moment the clock struck twelve. A sharp 
 metallic sound rang out on the grave, after which a blue flame 
 appeared and illumined the thirteen kneeling figures. 
 
 " 'I greet you, Roshe beth Aboth (heads) of the twelve tribes 
 of Israel,' announced a dull voice. 
 
 '"We greet you, son of the accursed.' 
 
 "'A hundred years have already passed. Where have the 
 Nesiyim (princds of the tribes) come from?' 
 
 \
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 31 
 
 '"From the lands where the nation of Adonai has been scat- 
 tered by the orders of our forefathers.' 
 
 " 'Are you ready to fulfil the promise during the coming cen- 
 tury?' 
 
 '"We are ready!' 
 
 '"Then say, whose representatives are you, and where do you 
 come from? Tribe of Judah?' 
 
 '"From Amsterdam,' replied a strong, loud voice. 
 
 '"Tribe of Benjamin?' 
 
 " 'Toledo !' came the dull answer. 
 
 "'Tribe of Levi?' 
 
 " Worms !' 
 
 "Tribe of Manasseh?' 
 
 " 'Budapest I' 
 
 "Tribe of Gad?' 
 
 " 'Cracow !' 
 
 "Tribe of Simeon?' 
 
 " 'Rome !' 
 
 " Tribe of Zebulun?' 
 
 " 'Paris P 
 
 "Tribe of Dan?' 
 
 " 'Constaninople 1' 
 
 " Tribe of Asher?' 
 
 " 'London !' 
 
 " Tribe of Issachar?' 
 
 "The answer came in a faint voice and could not be heard dis- 
 tinctly. 
 
 "Tribe of Naphtali?' 
 
 "'Prague!' 
 
 "'And I am the representative of the unfortunate and exiles,' 
 said the man who asked the questions in a dull voice. 'I am my- 
 self wandering about all over the world in order that I may unite 
 you for the sake of the cause of redemption which has been 
 promised to the seed of Abraham and which was taken from 
 them by the sons of him who was crucified! Who is here of 
 the house of Aaron, let him rise, scrutinize the heads of the 
 tribes and gather the council.' 
 
 "The man who was the first to arrive rose and then seated 
 himself upon the tombstone. One by one the others came over 
 to him and whispered in his ear a seven-syllabled word, and 
 each time he nodded in approval. After that all returned to
 
 32 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 their former places. 'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'our fathers 
 formed a union which compels all those chosen as representatives 
 of the tribes to gather every hundred years at the grave of the 
 great teacher of Caballah whose doctrines give the chosen ones 
 power on earth and supremacy over all the descendants of 
 Ishmael. Eighteen hundred years the struggle has been con- 
 ducted by the nation of Israel for supremacy which was prom- 
 ised to Abraham and which was taken away from us by the 
 Cross. Trampled under foot by our enemies, under the terror 
 of death and all kinds of humiliation and violence, the nation 
 of Israel, nevertheless, has not abandoned this struggle, and as 
 they are scattered all over the earth, the whole earth must be- 
 long to them ! Our learned men are conducting this struggle for 
 hundreds of years ; the nation is gradually rising from its fall ; 
 its power is growing and spreading. To us belongs the earthly 
 god, which was made for us with such sorrow by Aaron in the 
 desert ... the Golden Calf which the backsliders are wor- 
 shipping !' 
 
 " We hear !' they whispered on all sides. 
 
 " 'When all the gold on earth will be ours, the power will go 
 over to us. Then will be fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. 
 Gold is the ruler of the earth. Gold is power, reward, pleasure 
 ... all that human beings fear and desire. This is the mys- 
 tery of the Caballa ... the teachings concerning the spirit 
 which rules the world, and about the future ! Eighteen centuries 
 we have belonged to our enemies. The future belongs to us. For 
 the fifth time in the course of the thousand-year-old struggle to 
 which we have consecrated ourselves, those who know of the ex- 
 istence of the secret union have gathered here to take counsel 
 as to the means which are afforded us by the sins of our 
 enemies, and each time, for five hundreds years, a new Sanhed- 
 rim, ordered the fiercest struggle. But, excepting Russia, not a 
 single century has been crowned with such success as this one. 
 Therefore we may think that the time for which we are striving 
 is near, and we may say, "The. Future is ours 1" ' 
 
 "'Yes, if persecutions against the Jews will not take place in 
 the meantime !' pointed out one of the men with a bitter smile. 
 
 " 'The dark days of such a danger are passed. The success 
 of so-called civilization among the Christian nations may serve 
 as the best protection for our endeavors. Before listening to the
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 33 
 
 individual opinions, let us examine the material means, the pure 
 capital possessed by the nation of Israel. . . .' 
 
 " 'But against the three and a half million Jews with their 
 money there are 265 million enemies in Europe, or rather 500 
 million fists,' remarked one of these present. 
 
 " 'The head will protect us against the fists, as in the past. 
 Labor is the slave of speculation, and violence is the slave of 
 wisdom. Who will deny that cunning is the distinctive trait 
 of our nation? 
 
 " Our nation is ostentatious and greedy, arrogant and pleasure- 
 loving. 
 
 " 'Where there is light there is also shadow. It is not in vain 
 that Adonai our God gave his chosen people the tenacity of a 
 snake, the cunning of a fox, the look of a falcon, the memory 
 of a dog, the diligence of an ant, and the sociability of a beaver. 
 We were in captivity on the rivers of Babylon, and have become 
 powerful ! Our temple was destroyed, but we have built a 
 thousand new temples ! For eighteen hundreds years we were 
 slaves ; now we have grown head and shoulders above all other 
 nations.' 
 
 "All the twelve pronounced the concluding words 
 
 " 'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'the time has come when, in ac- 
 cordance with the laws of the founder of our union, we must 
 determine ways and means by which the Jews shall attain their 
 goal as soon as possible ; our experience of a hundred years will 
 help us in this. We who know must direct and guide the masses 
 which are blind. We, the builders, will combine the dead stones 
 into a pillar which must reach the sky.' 
 
 "'The Tower of Babel was destroyed by the hand of Him 
 whose name I dare not pronounce,' said the sceptic. 
 
 " 'Our structure rests upon the foundation of the promise 
 made to Abraham. It is your turn to speak, representative of 
 the tribe of Reuben! By what means will the Jewish nation 
 achieve power and supremacy over all other nations on earth?' 
 
 "A shrill, unpleasant voice then spoke: 
 
 " 'All the princes and the lands of Europe are at present in 
 debt. The stock exchange regulates these debts. But such things 
 are done only by movable capital; therefore all the movable 
 capital must go over to the hands of the Jews. The foundation 
 for this is already laid, judging from what we have heard here. 
 If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the
 
 34 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary 
 to facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the 
 more. Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, 
 mortgages on railroads, taxes, mines, regalia and domains. Fur- 
 thermore, the stock exchange is a means for the transfer of the 
 belongings of the small people to the hands of the capitalists, 
 by drawing them into stock gambling. Transactions in securities 
 are a splendid invention of our nation. Although the stock ex- 
 change members cheat one another sometimes, it is the outsider 
 who always pays in the end.' 
 
 "The voice which resounded on the Paris Bourse became 
 silent. 
 
 "'Do the sekenim agree with the opinion of our brother?' 
 asked the Levite. 
 
 "A whisper of approbation was the answer to this question. 
 
 " 'Representative of the tribe of Simeon, it is your turn now I' 
 
 "A serious, dull voice resounded after this order. Each word 
 was pronounced slowly and thoughtfully: 
 
 " 'Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting pos- 
 session of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and 
 influence. Therefore, the Jews should secure the possibility of 
 acquiring real estate. It will not be hard to accomplish this, 
 if we acquire movable capital. Therefore it is necessary to 
 facilitate loans on land. Under the fear of scandal we will 
 destroy land wealth and minimize its importance. Ownership 
 of land should be mobilized, if lands are sold as other com- 
 modities. The more we help in the breaking up of estates, 
 the more easily will they fall into our hands. Under the pretext 
 of relieving the poor classes, it is necessary to levy all taxes of 
 states and communities on the land owners. When the land is in 
 our hands, the labor of the Christian workers and farmers will 
 give us a tenfold income/ 
 
 "He who did not belong to any tribe laughed sneeringly. 
 
 "This advice is good, but not new. Ask in Paris and in 
 Vienna, who owns the houses there?' 
 
 "A whisper of approbation was heard again. 
 
 "'Tribe of Judah, your turn!' 
 
 "The voice that resounded was marked with conviction and 
 reminded one of the sound of the Thaller. 
 
 " 'Industry, the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish 
 nation, must be paralyzed even as agriculture. The manufac-
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 35 
 
 turer should be no better than an ordinary worker. The means 
 to accomplish this may be the unlimited freedom of trade. The 
 manufacturer will take the place of the artisan as he does not 
 have to work, only to speculate. The children of Israel can adapt 
 themselves to all branches of work. Their capital and dexterity 
 will be the substitute for right. Transforming the artisans into 
 our factory workers, we will be in a position to direct the masses 
 for our political purposes. Whoever resists this system will be 
 destroyed by competition. The senseless and ungrateful masses 
 will not support the artisans in this struggle, if commodities 
 are reduced in price to a certain extent. 
 
 "A noisy approbation of the new Sanhedrin showed that the 
 soundness of this advice had long been appreciated and even ap- 
 plied in practice. 
 
 " 'Now it is my turn,' said the representative of Levi 1 speak 
 in the name of the tribe of Aaron. The natural enemy of the 
 Jews is the Christian church. Therefore we must try to hu- 
 miliate it, we must instill into it free-thinking, scepticsm, and 
 conflicts. Therefore we will, first of all, start a war on the clergy, 
 we will try to arouse suspicion against it and ridicule it. The 
 main pillar of the church is the school. Therefore we must 
 gain influence over the young. Under the guise of progress and 
 the equal rights of all religions, we will destroy the study of 
 religion in Christian schools. Then the Jews may become 
 teachers in all schools ; then religion will be taught at home. 
 And as there is little time left for that, the spirit of religion 
 will gradually decline, and eventually it will be destroyed alto- 
 gether. Agitation for the appropriation of property belonging 
 to the churches and schools, the transfer of church property to 
 the state, or (what is the same) into the hands of the Jews, 
 will be our reward !' 
 
 "Again approbation followed the words of the man who had 
 spoken. Nobody contradicted him and he announced: 
 
 " 'Representative of the tribe of Isaachar, it is your turn !' 
 
 "Now an old, trembling voice spoke: 
 
 "'Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. 
 The coarse military art is not for the sons of Israel. Not every- 
 one can be a Gideon ! The army is for the defense of the throne 
 and the school of narrow patriotism.. Not the sword, but reason 
 and money must rule. Therefore at every opportune instance, 
 it is necesaary to help the downfall of the military class, to arouse
 
 36 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 suspicion in the masses against it, and to incite animosity against 
 one another. It is enough for the soldiers to do police duty and 
 to protect the wealthy from those who have nothing.' 
 
 " The Lion of Judah has spoken,' said the stranger angrily. 
 'David conquered Goliath. The nations will soon wear long 
 coats instead of military armour. A slap on the bourse will 
 be equivalent to a lost battle.' 
 
 "It looked as though a storm was rising against this arrogant 
 sarcasm, but one word from the eldest restored them all to calm. 
 
 "'This is the son of Baall He may say whatever he pleases. 
 But he will do whatever is decided by the council of the 
 tribes.' 
 
 "'The tribe of Zebulun may speak 1' 
 
 "A dull voice, like a storm in the distance, said as follows! 
 
 " 'Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast 
 to what is old. But our interest demands that we participate, or, 
 rather, direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that 
 ours is a time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the 
 amelioration of the material condition of the needy classes. But 
 for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals. Cap- 
 ital is in the hands of the Jews. Therefore they must outwardly 
 take part in the movement and try to divert it from social and 
 political reforms. The masses themselves are blind and foolish, 
 and permit the shouters to rule over them. Who shouts more 
 loudly and more shrewdly than the Jews? Therefore our nation 
 has been the first on the platform, in the press, and in all Chris- 
 tian communities \ The more communities and meetings, the more 
 dissatisfaction and idleness. From this it follows inevitably that 
 the people grow poorer, that they become subjected to those 
 who have money, leading to the enrichment of the latter. Be- 
 sides, every movement makes us richer, for the smaller people 
 are ruined and are contracting debts. The unstability of the 
 foundation increases our power and our influence. Therefore 
 the support of every kind of dissatisfaction, every revolution, 
 increases our capital and brings us nearer to our goal.' 
 
 "This terrible speech was followed by prolonged silence. Every 
 member of this secret Sanhedrim seemed to be thinking of its 
 terrible meaning. The son of Baal again laughed hoarsely. 
 
 "'Are you afraid of blood? It isn't yours.' 
 
 "Then one member of the gathering expressed his approval, 
 and all others followed his example.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE tf 
 
 '"Son of the tribe of Dan, your turn!' 
 "The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order : 
 '"Every business in which there is speculation and profit must 
 be in our hands. That is our natural right. First of all, we 
 must get control of the traffic in liquor, butter, wool, and bread. 
 Then we shall have in our hands agriculture, farming. We can 
 prepare bread everywhere, and if dissatisfaction and want should 
 arise, we can easily throw the blame on the government. Petty 
 wares, which give a great deal of trouble and yield very little 
 profit, we can leave in the hands of the Christians. Let them 
 work hard and suffer as the chosen people suffered for several 
 centuries.' 
 
 "This speech scarcely needed approval. The Levite called 
 on the next one. 
 '"Tribe of Naphtali?' 
 
 "The following words rang out shrilly and with assurance: 
 "'All governmental positions should be open to us. Once 
 this principle is established, the cunning and flattery of 
 the Jewish employees will help them to penetrate even there, 
 and they will have real influence. I am speaking only of the 
 posts which bring honor, power, and pre-eminence. Positions 
 which require work and knowledge may remain for the Chris- 
 tians. Therefore the Jews may neglect positions of secondary 
 importance. Justice is very important for us, the law is a 
 great step forward. This occupation is suited to the cunning 
 and skill of our people and gives us influence and power against 
 our natural enemies. Why can't a Jew be Minister of Education 
 as he has already been more than once Minister of Finance?' 
 
 " 'Remember the scaffold of Haman, the fate of Shushan and 
 Leopold!' said a warning voice. 
 
 " "Why does the raven croak about the past which is so distant 
 and almost forgotten? More than one of our people has been a 
 Minister in France and respected by the King himself.' 
 
 "Approval was expressed in a tone of satisfied pride; then 
 the orator continued: 
 
 '"Our people must be among the legislators of the govern- 
 ments. The laws of the goyim against the children of Israel 
 must be abolished. We will maintain the laws of our Fathers. 
 We need no longer any laws that would protect us. No. We 
 must concern ourselves about laws that will give us privileges. 
 A mild law respecting bankruptcy, promulgated in the interests of
 
 38 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 humanity, would be a golden mountain in our hands. First of 
 all we must see to it that the law regarding usury is abolished 
 in all countries under the pretext that money would thereby be- 
 come cheaper. Money is just such a commodity as others, and 
 the law should give us the right to regulate its price according 
 to our desire.' 
 
 "'Now is the turn for the tribe of Benjamin.' 
 
 '"What can I add to the counsel of such wise men? The 
 Jew should also make use of honors, and should be at the head 
 of all organizations that may give him honor without risks, and 
 he should engage in science and the arts which are more adapted 
 te the character of our people and which we can master more 
 easily. We can become good actors and philosophers, because 
 there is room for speculation in these domains. In the arts our 
 people will look after the reception and will burn incense to 
 ourselves. In science we will take up medicine and philosophy. 
 These afford opportunities for theories and speculation. A 
 physician penetrates the secrets of families and holds their lives 
 in his hands.' 
 
 "Tribe of Asher, your turn!' 
 
 " We must demand free marriage between Jews and Chris- 
 tians. Israel will only be the gainer, even though there be 
 an admixture of impure blood to a certain degree. Our sons 
 and daughters will marry into renowned and powerful Christian 
 families. We give money and thus have influence. The Chris- 
 tian relationship cannot have a bad influence on us, while we can 
 exert a strong influence over them. That is one thing. An- 
 other thing is that we respect the Jewish woman and we enjoy 
 the forbidden pleasure with the women of our enemies. We have 
 money, and for money we can get everything. A Jew must 
 never make a daughter of his own race his mistress. If he 
 should desire to sin against the Seventh Commandment he 
 should content himself with Christian girls.' 
 
 "'What is the use of employing the beautiful girls of the 
 goyim in our stores if not for this?' angrily interposed the rep- 
 resentative of the evil spirit. 'Whoever will not want to satisfy 
 our desire will get no work, consequently no bread. Go to the 
 large cities and you will see that they are not waiting for your 
 wise men's orders. Substitute a contract for sacrament in the 
 marriage of Christians and their wives and daughters will come 
 to you still more readily.'
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 39 
 
 "The terrible cynicism of these words, touching such a deli- 
 cate subject, must have produced a profound impression, espe- 
 cially since the views of the ancient doctrines were so strict on 
 the topic of moral purity. 
 
 "'What does the law say?' asked one of the twelve. 
 "'For adultery with a woman of our own people death ; for 
 seducing a girl a fine, if she was not betrothed; if she was 
 betrothed death. But the law is not so rigorous with regard 
 to one who lives with a slave her body belongs to her master.' 
 "'Are the goyim better than our slaves?' 
 "This explanation was followed by a whisper of approval. 
 " The tribe of Manasseh may speak now !' 
 "The last of the orators lifted his hand and during his speech 
 he raised and lowered it, as if desiring thus to make a stronger 
 impression by his words. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, 
 but he spoke skilfully and with assurance. 
 
 "'If gold is the first power in the world, the press is the| 
 second. Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here 
 without the aid of the press ? We will attain our aim only when ' 
 the press is in our hands. Our people must direct the daily 
 publications. We are cunning, shrewd, and we possess money 
 which we know how to utilize for our purposes. We need great 
 political newspapers which mold public opinion criticism, the 
 literature of the streets and the stage. In this way we will crowd 
 out the Christians step by step, and will dictate to the world 
 what it should believe in, what it should respect, and what it 
 should curse. We will repeat the sorrowful cry of Israel and 
 the complaints against the persecutions which are directed against 
 us. Then, even though each individual may be against us, the 
 masses, in their stupidity, will always be for us. With the press 
 in our hands, we can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into hon- 
 esty. We can shake all foundations, and separate families. We 
 can destroy faith in all that our enemies, until now, have believed. 
 We can ruin credits and arouse passions. We can declare war; 
 we can award fame or disgrace. We can uplift or ruin talent 
 
 '"When Israel shall have gold and the press in his hands, 
 we will be able to ask: "On what day will it please you to put 
 on Atarah (crown) which belongs to us by right, to erect 
 Shisse (?) and extend the Shebet (sceptre) over the nations of 
 the earth?"' 
 "A noisy greeting followed these words and the agitated men
 
 40 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 who listened hardly understood for some time what was being 
 said at the meeting. At last the voice of the Levite called upon 
 all to be silent. 
 
 "'The Roshe-Bate-Aboth of the twelve tribes have uttered 
 words of wisdom. These words will be as pillars for the times 
 to come, if the son of him "who has not rest" will write these 
 words upon his memory and spread the seeds among the nation 
 of Israel in order that it may grow to be a mighty tree. They 
 will be the sword with which Israel will strike down his enemies. 
 Our posterity must share among themselves happiness, wealth 
 and power as it shared misfortune and dangers. They must 
 help one another. Wherever one of them places his foot, he 
 must drag another his brother along with him. If one 
 of them is unfortunate, others must help him, if he but lives 
 according to the law of our nation. 
 
 " *He who was in prison for ten years, may become a rich 
 man to whom princes will bow, if only our people will not for- 
 sake him. Where everybody is against us, all will be for us. 
 After forty years of wandering in the desert, the hand of Jehovah 
 brought us to power in the land of Canaan; the same hand will 
 lead us after forty-five times forty years from our misfortune 
 and miseries to rule over lands which are forty-five times vaster 
 than Canaan. If Israel shall obey the decision here adopted by 
 the Sanhedrin of the Caballah, our grandchildren, coming a 
 hundred years hence to the grave of the founder of our union, 
 will announce to him that they have indeed become the princes 
 of the world and that the promise made to the nation of Israel 
 has been fulfilled. Other nations will become his slaves ! Renew 
 our oath, sons of the golden calf, and go to all lands of the 
 world/ 
 
 "The blue flame flared up brightly upon the grave of the 
 Rabbi ; each of the thirteen threw upon the tomb a stone which 
 each carried under his cloak. 
 
 "It seemed to the doctor that on the top of the tombstone, 
 in the bluish flame, there appeared a monstrous golden figure 
 of an animal. 
 
 "Then he heard the same metallic sound that he had heard 
 when the light first appeared. Then impenetrable darkness cov- 
 ered the cemetery. 
 
 "The white figures again slipped by among the tombstones, 
 The gates creaked softly,
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LlS 41 
 
 "The clock in the tower struck two past midnight. The last of 
 the mysterious visitors knocked at the window and a hoarse 
 voice said (as though the speaker knew that the watchman was 
 not asleep) : 
 
 " 'Close the house of life, watchman of those who are awaiting 
 the resurrection, and may your lips be sealed with the seal of 
 Solomon for a hundred years/ 
 
 "The scholar still lay motionless; he was afraid to stir; all 
 he had heard had made upon him such a dreadful impression. 
 "A noise near him indicated that his companion was rising. 
 "To concentrate in their hands all the capital of the nations 
 of all lands ; to secure possession of all the land, railroads, mines, 
 houses; to be at the head of all organizations, to occupy the 
 highest governmental posts, to paralyze commerce and industry 
 everywhere, to seize the press, to direct legislation, public opin- 
 ion and national movements and all for the purpose of sub- 
 jugating all nations on earth to their power! Nol I shall 
 struggle against the golden calf and shall smash it to pieces as 
 Moses smashed it in the desert.' 
 
 '"What we heard is a threat against all society. Here is 
 my hand, I will be your comrade in this struggle against the 
 power of gold.' 
 
 'The Italian shook his head, but accepted the extended hand. 
 'No,' he said, 'I want to act alone. There is a force which, if 
 properly directed, is not weaker than gold. That force is pov- 
 erty and her companion, labor. I shall call them out and lead 
 them into battle. Proud Israel! Beware! I shall put against 
 you the Artel (union) and Labor.' 
 
 "'And I,' said the scholar, with animation, 'all that is lofty 
 and noble, science, idealism, faith I shall lead these against 
 this materialism.' 
 
 "His comrade laughed: 
 
 " "Your ideals will crumble as clay striking against metal. 
 Only the forces of poverty and hunger can be the fighters that 
 will defeat the golden calf. Our ways part here; you will go 
 one way, and I another. My promise is fulfilled ; but remember 
 your vowbe silent as to all that you have heard and seen 
 her* !' "
 
 42 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 This is the weird, fantastic "thriller" from which sprang 
 the Protocols. It is the first stage. According to this 
 story not only were there present at a secret meeting in 
 the Prague Cemetery, the representatives of the twelve 
 tribes of Israel, ten of which totally disappeared 
 nearly twenty-five centuries ago, but also the son of 
 "the accursed one," the Devil, was there, making side- 
 remarks from time to time. His assigned function was 
 that of spreading the decisions of the Wise Men of Zion 
 among the Jews in order that they conquer the world. 
 
 Dr. Herman L. Strack, professor of theology at the 
 ^niversity of Berlin, one of the foremost Christian 
 authorities on theological and religious literature, com- 
 menting on this Goedsche-Retcliffe concoction, says that 
 this tale of the ghostly convocation in the Jewish ceme- 
 tery at Prague, discloses no real knowledge of Judaism, 
 that the reference to mixed marriages indicates gross 
 ignorance of actual Jewish thought, and that the Hebrew 
 words supposed to have been employed by the spokesmen 
 for the various tribes appear to have been borrowed from 
 a dictionary. He also points to Goedsche-Retcliffe's story 
 and the "Rabbi's Speech" about to be mentioned as the 
 sources of the Protocols.
 
 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 "Ret- 
 cliffe" An Illuminating Footnote A Dedication to the Rus- 
 sian "Black Hundreds" The Imaginary "Speech" Bears 
 Witness to Authenticity of "Protocols," Themselves Based on 
 "Speech" Three Stages of the Lie. 
 
 A number of years after this Russian translation of 
 the Goedsche-Retcliffe story appeared, Sir John Retcliffe, 
 alias Goedsche, deeming it important for his purpose of 
 adding fuel to the flame of anti-semitism that had been 
 lighted in Germany, undertook to convert this work of 
 fiction, this offspring of his imagination, into a statement 
 of fact. This led him to adopt the simple device of con- 
 solidating into one continuous speech the dialogue con- 
 tained in his shilling shocker, and putting the speech into 
 the mouth of an imaginary Rabbi in such a way as to 
 make it appear to be an address delivered by him to a 
 secret convocation of Jews. And the very man who had 
 invented the speeches set down in his work of fiction 
 twenty years before, now vouched for the authenticity of 
 the obviously fabricated speech which he attributed to a 
 Rabbi who had his birth in the contorted mind of this 
 notorious forger. 
 
 A translation from the Russian of the apocryphal 
 "Rabbi's Speech," with the introductory note as published 
 in Russia by G. Butmi, in 1907, in a book entitled "The 
 Enemy of the Human Race," dedicated by the author to 
 the Black Hundreds, will now be laid before the reader. 
 43
 
 44 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 A comparison of it, with the scene in the cemetery, will 
 at once demonstrate the identity of authorship. Below 
 is a facsimile of the title page of this book, a copy of 
 which is in the Russian collection of the Library of 
 Congress, in Washington, D. C. 
 
 OEJlMHI/ITEJlbHblfl Pt>HI/l. 
 
 BPATH 
 POAA HEJIOBtHEGHAFO. 
 
 COW3S PVCCK4FO HAPOflJL 
 
 Vemat'pmoe, o6pa8omannoe u uono/meHHoe usdam'e. 
 
 xoHtnuji. ropoaa, J& 
 1907.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE ^5 
 
 THE RABBI'S SPEECH 
 To the Jewish People * 
 
 [Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics 
 were omitted in the Butmi version, but are given in the 
 French publication "Le Peril Judeo Magonnique I. Les 
 Protocols des Sages de Zion," by Jouin, Paris, 1920.] ~~ 
 
 "Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, 
 without fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master 
 Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowl- 
 edge is imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the 
 power over the whole world and authority over all the descend- 
 ants of Israel. . . . 
 
 "It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel 
 is being waged with the power which had been promised 
 to Abraham but which had been snatched away from 
 him by the Cross. Trampled under foot, humiliated by 
 his enemies, ceaselessly under threats of death, of per- 
 secution, of rapine and violence of every sort, Israel has 
 not succumbed; and if he is dispersed over the whole 
 world it is because the whole world should belong to 
 him. 
 
 "It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our 
 learned men have been fighting against the Cross with courage 
 
 "NOTE. (Toward the end of the last century there appeared a book 
 in London by Retcliffe entitled "A Review of Political and Historical 
 Events During the Past Ten Years." This work was translated into 
 French. The French periodical press, without waiting for the com- 
 plete translation, of the book, reproduced certain parts of it because 
 they were of special interest. Thus the French newspapers and maga- 
 zines published translations from the English of an intensely interesting 
 speech, most edifying for Russia (from the Hebrew), delivered by one 
 of the Rabbis, THE AUTHENTICITY OF WHICH SPEECH IS 
 VOUCHED FOR BY THE ABOVE-MENTIONED AUTHOR. This in- 
 imitable gem must in the eyes of Russians assume all the more im- 
 portance since it is brought out by that "highly civilized" humane 
 and practical country, England, which has given protection to the 
 Russian Jews against the unsuccessfully invented persecutions on the 
 part of the Russian government and people. This monstrous document 
 was sent at the time in printed forni, in the French language, to the 
 editorial office of the Odessa newspaper "Novorosisk Telegraph" for 
 those who might want to examine the accuracy of the translation pub- 
 lished in No. 4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, 1891, and re- 
 printed in No. 21 of the Petersburg newspaper "Znamya," dated January 
 22, 1904. THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SAN- 
 HEDRIN OF 18W.)
 
 46 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 and persistence which nothing can break. Our people is rising 
 gradually and, with each day, its forces are growing. It is to 
 us that this God of the day belongs, which was erected by Aaron 
 in the wilderness, this golden calf, this universal deity of the 
 epoch. 
 "When we become, at last, the sole possessors of all the gold 
 
 to be found on earth, the true power will practically be trans- 
 ferred to our hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be 
 fulfilled. Gold is the greatest power on earth; it is wight, re- 
 ward, the instrument of every authority, it is all man, both 
 fears and desires. This is the sole mystery, the most profound 
 science of that spirit with the aid of which the entire world is 
 ruled. This is what the future holds in store. Eighteen cen- 
 turies have belonged to our enemies ; this century and the fol- 
 lowing must belong to us, the People of Israel, and will be 
 ours, without fail. Here, for the tenth time during a thousand 
 years of cruel and incessant struggle with our enemies, have 
 assembled at this cemetery; at the grave of the great Master, 
 Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, the elect of each 
 of the tribes of the Israelite people, in order to discuss and 
 agree upon, the means of making use, in the interests of 
 our cause, of all the tremendous mistakes and errors, which 
 our enemies the Christians have not ceased to commit. Every 
 time the new Sanhedrin (assembly) proclaimed and preached 
 merciless warfare against our enemies, but not once during the 
 past centuries did our forefathers succeed in concentrating in 
 our hands such an enormous quantity of gold [and conse- 
 quently of power] as the nineteenth century has given us. We 
 are therefore able, without any senseless illusions, to flatter our- 
 selves with the hope of attaining our goal before long, and we 
 can look forward with assurance into the very eyes of the 
 future. 
 
 "Persecutions and insults, these sombre and tortuous times, 
 which the people of Israel bore with heroic patience, have for- 
 tunately come to an end, owing to the progress of civilization 
 among the Christians, and this progress is the best shield under 
 which we can hide and scheme, in order that we may cover 
 quickly and decisively the last leg of that distance which divides 
 us from our supreme aim. Let us cast a cursory glance at the
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 47 
 
 economic situation of Europe and analyze the resources which 
 fell to the Israelites from the beginning of the present century, 
 owing to the concentration in their hands of the tremendous 
 capital which is in their possesson at the present time. It turns 
 out that in Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, 
 Rome, Naples, etc. [and in all lands the Rothschilds], that 
 everywhere, the Israelites are the masters of the financial situa- 
 tion, being as they are possessors of many billions, not to men- 
 tion localities of the second and third class where all the financial 
 funds are in their hands and not mentioning that, without their 
 direct influence, no financial operation, no work of any im- 
 portance, could be carried out anywhere at any time. At pres- 
 ent, all the emperors, kings and ruling princes are burdened 
 with tremendous debts incurred in order to be able to maintain 
 numerous standing armies [to sustain their tottering thrones]. 
 The Bourse quotes and regulates these moneys, and we are the 
 full masters of the Bourse in all the centres of the globe. The 
 problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent 
 the means of contracting these loans and thus to become the 
 sole managers of all valuables, after which the exploitation of 
 all their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial 
 plants, as well as of all other (real property) including duties 
 and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital 
 lent by us to the various States. 
 
 "Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a 
 country's wealth. The possession of large plots of land will 
 pave for us even a broader way to honors and will strengthen 
 our influence (over the highest officials of the country). From 
 this follows, that our efforts will be directed towards inducing 
 our brethren in Israel to make large agricultural purchases. We 
 must, therefore, do our utmost to break up large estates into 
 small parcels, in order to be able to purchase them in the easiest 
 and quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help the work- 
 ing classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners with 
 taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus 
 gradually be transferred into our hands, the whole labor of the 
 Christian proletariat will become for us a new source of tre- 
 mendous profits. Since the Christian Church is one of our most 
 dangerous enemies, we must work tirelessly to weaken its in- 
 fluence, and in order to accomplish this, it is necessary to use 
 all our efforts to implant in the Christian intellectual class ideas
 
 48 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 of atheism, scepticism, dissension and to call forth religious 
 disputes among the newly-formed groups and sects of Christen- 
 dom. 
 
 "Logically, we must begin by depreciating the min- 
 isters of this religion. Let us declare open war on them, 
 let us provoke suspicions on their devotion, on their 
 private conduct, and by ridicule and persiflage we shall 
 be right in the consideration attached to the state and 
 the costume of the priest. 
 
 "Every war, every revolution, every political and religious up- 
 heaval brings nearer the moment when we shall attain the great 
 end for which we have been striving so long. Commerce and 
 speculation these branches, most plentiful in their fruits, must 
 never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites. 
 
 "... and once these branches have become identi- 
 fied with us, we shall, through the flattery and perspicacity 
 of our executives, know how to penetrate to the prime 
 source of true influence and power. It is understood 
 that we are concerned only with those pursuits that entail 
 honors, power or privileges, for all those that require 
 knowledge, labor or disagreeable conditions, these can and 
 should be left to the Christians. The magistrature is an 
 institution of prime importance for us. The legal pro- 
 fession develops most the faculty of civilization and 
 initiates one furthest in the affairs of our natural ene- 
 mies, the Christians, and it is through it that we can 
 subject them to our mercy. Why should not the Jews 
 become Ministers of Instruction when they have so often 
 been Ministers of Finance? The Jews must also aspire 
 to the rank of legislators with the object of abrogating 
 the laws made by the Goim, faithless sinners, against 
 the sons of Israel, the true believers, in their invariable 
 attachment to the holy laws of Abraham. 
 
 "Moreover, on this point, our plan is nearing the most 
 complete realization, for progress has nearly everywhere 
 recognized and accorded to us the same civic rights as 
 to Christians, but that which it is of importance to ob- 
 tain, that which must be the object of our ceaseless 
 efforts, is a law less severe on bankruptcy. We shall 
 make of it a gold mine more rich than were ever the 
 mines of California.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 49 
 
 "With this object in view the people of Israel must direct 
 its ambition towards those high offices of authority which have 
 the power to distribute honors and esteem. The most assured 
 way of attaining such offices is to have weight and importance in 
 the various industrial enterprises, financial and commercial op- 
 erations, and to be on guard for all pitfalls and temptations 
 which may lead to the prosecution of the sons of Israel in the 
 country's courts. 
 
 "Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must 
 be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing 
 traits of its natural gifts. We must not remain passive to any- 
 thing that may aid us in gaining a place of honor in society; 
 philosophy, medicine, law, political economy in other words, all 
 branches of science, art, literature represent a wide field where 
 even our smallest successes, developing our abilities, will be of 
 great benefit to our cause. 
 
 "These vocations are inseparable from speculation. 
 Thus the production of a musical composition, even 
 though it be very mediocre, will furnish to our co- 
 religionists a plausible reason for elevating on a pedestal 
 and surrounding with a halo the Jew who will be the 
 author of it. As for the sciences, medicine and phil- 
 osophy, they must equally be a part of our intellectual 
 domain. 
 
 "To the physician are usually confided the most intimate secrets 
 of the family and he, therefore, holds in his hands the health 
 and life of our ancient enemies the Christians. We are obliged 
 to encourage matrimonial unions between Israelites and Chris- 
 tians, for the people of Israel, risking no loss whatsoever from 
 such contact, will only gain from such unions. 
 
 "... The introduction of a certain quantity of im- 
 pure blood into our God-chosen race will not corrupt it. 
 Our daughters will furnish us with these marriages alli- 
 ances with Christian families that possess influence and 
 power. In exchange for the money that we give, it is 
 just that we obtain influence on everything that sur- 
 rounds us. 
 
 "Our relationship with the Christians will not make us deviate 
 from the path we have always been following; on the contrary, 
 with a certain degree of artfulness and cunning, this relationship 
 will gradually make us full masters of their destinies. It is
 
 50 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 desirable, that the Israelites refrain from keeping concubines 
 of our holy faith and rather select Christian girls for the part. 
 The substitution of the simple formality of a contract before 
 some civil power for the church ceremony is of the greatest 
 importance to us, because on this condition Christian women 
 will overflow our camp. If gold is the first power on this earth, 
 then the second power is undoubtedly the press. But of what 
 significance is the latter without the former? Since we cannot 
 realize all the above-stated aims without the assistance of the 
 press, it is absolutely necessary that the management of all the 
 newspapers and magazines of all the countries, be in our hands. 
 The possession of gold, of the press and of sufficient means for 
 the satisfaction of certain qualities of its soul, will make us 
 masters of public opinion and will subjugate to us the masses. 
 
 "Following this method on every step of our way with a per- 
 sistence which is one of our highest qualities, we will push the 
 Christians aside and reduce their influence to zero. We will 
 dictate to the world what it should believe, what it must 
 revere or despise. It is possible that persons will be found who 
 will arise against us ; arming themselves, they will hurl insults 
 and curses at us ; but the docile, ignorant masses will harken to 
 us and will take our part. Once we become absolute masters 
 of the press, we will easily be able to refashion the ideas of 
 honor, of virtue, of faithfulness- and to deal the first blow td 
 the family-conception which is considered to this day as the 
 most sacred institution and which must be reduced to a state of 
 decay. We shall then be able to uproot the belief in that which 
 our enemies, the Christians, shall have worshipped until that 
 time and instead of that, having brought up the army in a 
 spirit of infatuation with the various passions, we shall openly 
 declare war upon everything that the gentiles are at present 
 revering and worshipping. 
 
 "May all this be understood and noted, and let every child of 
 Israel become imbued with its true principles. Then our might 
 will grow like a gigantic tree the branches of which will bear 
 fruits, known as riches, pleasure, power. 
 
 " . . . as a compensation for that hideous condition 
 which for long centuries has been the unique lot of the 
 people of Israel. 
 
 "When one of us makes a step forward let the next one 
 follow him. If his foot slips let his co-religionists hasten to
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 51 
 
 support him. If an Israelite is trapped by the court of the 
 country in which he resides, his brethren in faith should use 
 all their efforts to get him out of trouble or to help him other- 
 wise, but on the condition that the Israelite in question acted 
 according to the laws which Israel observes strictly and guards 
 for so many centuries, and the precepts of our religion. 
 
 "Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious 
 ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have be- 
 queathed to us. 
 
 "It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and 
 protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a coun- 
 try, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of the 
 workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards 
 possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. 
 
 "The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their 
 leaders to yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them 
 easy prey for us and a double weapon for our popularity and 
 credit. With the aid of oratory, our speakers will be able to 
 make people believe our artificial enthusiasm which Christians 
 usually attain through the medium of genuine sentiment. 
 
 "It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat 
 and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting 
 in this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, when- 
 ever we shall need them. We will use them as weapons for up- 
 heavals and revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move 
 our cause forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with 
 a quick pace, nearer our goal to reign over the entire world, 
 as it was promised by our Father Abraham."
 
 52 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 [For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, 
 out of many that might be selected, are taken from the 
 Goedsche-Retdiffe novel which were afterwards elabo- 
 rated and presented as facts.] 
 
 FIRST STAGE OF THE LIE-THE NOVELETTE 
 
 If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the 
 same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary to 
 facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the more. 
 Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, mortgages on 
 railroads, taxes, mines, regalias (?) and domains. (Page 32.) 
 
 Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession of 
 every country. This in itself gives power, respect and influence. 
 Therefore the Jews should secure the possibility of acquiring real 
 estate. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate the loans on land. The 
 more we will help the breaking up of estates, the more easily they 
 will fall into our hands. (Page 33.) 
 
 Industry the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish nation 
 must be paralyzed even as agriculture. (Page 34.) 
 
 The natural enemy of the Jews is the Christian Church. Therefore 
 we must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking, sceptic- 
 ism, and conflicts. Therefore we will first of all start a war on the 
 clergy, we will try to arouse suspicion against it and humiliate it. 
 
 Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. . . . Not 
 the sword, but reason and money must rule. (Page 35.) 
 
 Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to the 
 old. But our interests demand that we participate, or, rather, direct 
 the movements of nations. It is indisputable that ours is a time of 
 many reforms, whose main purpose is the amelioration of the material 
 condition of the needy classes. But for this the propertied classes 
 must sacrifice their capital. Capital is in the hands of the Jews. 
 Therefore, they must outwardly take part in the movement and try to 
 divert _it from social and political reforms. The masses themselves 
 are blind and foolish and permit the shouters to rule over them. 
 . . . The instability of the foundation increases our power and our 
 influence. Therefore the support of every kind of revolution increases 
 our capital and brings us nearer to our goal. (Pages 36-37.) 
 
 Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without the 
 aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press will be 
 in our hands. Our people must direct the daily publications. . . . We 
 need great political newspapers which will mold public opinion criti- 
 cism, the literature of the street and the stage. In this way we will 
 crowd out the Christians step by step, and will dictate to the world 
 what it should believe in, what it should respect and what it should 
 curse. We will repeat the sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints 
 against the persecutions which are directed against us. ... With the 
 press in our hands we can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into 
 honesty. We can shake all foundations and separate families. We can 
 destroy faith in all that our enemies believed until now. We can ruin 
 credits and arouse passions. Wo can declare war; we can give fame or 
 disgrace. We can uplift or ruin talent. (Page 43.)
 
 JHE HISTORY OF A LIE 53 
 
 [ The -following art parallel extracts from the imaginary 
 Rabbi's speech vouched for by the author of the novelette 
 as fact a number of years later.] 
 
 SECOND STAGE OF THE LIE-"THE RABBI'S SPEECH" 
 
 When we become at last the sole possessors of all the gold to be found 
 on earth, the power will practically be transferred to our hands, and 
 the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. Gold is the greatest 
 power on earth, it is might, reward, the instrument of every authority, 
 it is all man, both fears and desires. . . . The problem before us now 
 is to facilitate even to a greater extent the means of contracting these 
 loans and thus to become the sole managers of all the valuables, after 
 which the exploitation of all their railroads, mines, forests, large 
 factories and industrial plants, as well as of all other real property, 
 including duties and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for 
 the capital lent to us by the various states. 
 
 Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a country's 
 wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave for us even a 
 broader way to honors and will strengthen our influence over the 
 highest officials of the country. From this follows, that our efforts will 
 be directed towards inducing our brethren in Israel to make large 
 agricultural purchases. We must, therefore, do our utmost to break up 
 large estates into small parcels, in order to be able to purchase them 
 in the easiest and quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help 
 the working classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners 
 with taxation in all its severity. When thsse possessions will thus 
 gradually be transferred in our hands, the whole labor of the Christian 
 proletariat will become for us a new scarce of tremendous profits. 
 
 Commerce and speculation these branches, most plentiful in their 
 fruits, must never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israel- 
 ites, with this object in view the people of Israel must direct its 
 ambition towards those high offices of authority which have the power 
 to distribute honors and esteem. 
 
 Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous enemies, we 
 must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in order to accom- 
 plish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to implant in the 
 Christian intellectual class ideas of Atheism, scepticism, dissension 
 and to call forth religious disputes among the newly-formed groups 
 and sects of Christendom. 
 
 It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and 
 protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a country, 
 especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of the working- 
 man; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards possession 
 and rule over the movements of public opinion. 
 
 The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to fall 
 for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey for us 
 and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid of 
 oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our artificial 
 enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through genuine senti- 
 ment. . . . 
 
 Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be able 
 to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of faithfulness and to deal 
 the first blow to the family-conception which is considered to this day 
 as the most sacred institution and which must be reduced to a state 
 of decay. We sHall then be able to uproot the belief in that which our 
 enemies, the Christians, shall have worshipped until that time and 
 instead of that, having brought up the army in a spirit of infatuation 
 with the various passions, we shall openly declare war upon everything 
 which tht Gentiles are at present revering and. worshipping. . . ,
 
 54 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 [The following are extracts from the new -version of 
 the "protocols" introduced by Nilus in 1905, sho^v^ng the 
 different stages of the forgery.] 
 
 THIRD STAGE OF THE LIE "THE PROTOCOLS"* 
 
 All the wheels of the government mechanism are driven by the motor 
 which is in our hands, and that motor is gold. (Prot. 5.) 
 
 To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin 
 Gentile society, industry must be placed upon a speculative basis. 
 The result will be that all products extracted from industry from the 
 soil will not remain in their hands but will pass through speculation 
 into our possession. (Prot. 4.) 
 
 The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed away. 
 . . . But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they are 
 independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all costs we 
 must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain this is 
 to_ increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These measures 
 will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional subordination. 
 (Prot. 6.) 
 
 See second quotation above. 
 
 At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry 
 vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to act 
 as a counterpoise to industry. ... It is necessary for industry to 
 deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through speculation, 
 transfer all the money of the world into our hands, thereby throwing 
 the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. (Prot. 6.) 
 
 It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from 
 the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and 
 replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material 
 desires. (Prot. 4.) 
 
 We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy 
 and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper 
 us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily. (Prot. 17.) 
 
 It is indispensible for pur purposes that, as far as possible, wars 
 should bring _no territorial advantages. This will nhift war to an 
 economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of pur su- 
 periority in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will place 
 both sides under the control of our international agents with their 
 million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. (Pi-ot. 2.) 
 
 We will represent ourselves as the savjors of the laboring classes 
 who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting 
 that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to whom 
 we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles 
 of the universal solidarity of our social masonry. . . . (Prot. 3.) 
 
 We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all 
 movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will 
 tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in 
 disgust. (Prot. 5.) 
 
 We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of 
 Protocol 12. 
 
 These extracts are taken from "The Protocols of the Wise Men of 
 Zion," published by the Beckwith Company, New York, 1920.
 
 CHAPTER FOUR 
 THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY 
 
 Nilus on the Protocols Only "the God- Anointed Tsar of Rus- 
 sia" 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." 
 
 In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus's book ap- 
 peared, printed on government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, 
 containing a new and elaborated version of the protocols. 
 
 The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his 
 1905 edition, a copy of which is in the British Museum, 
 have deliberately omitted numerous passages from his 
 prologue and epilogue. These passages show clearly the 
 purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: "We may per- 
 haps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal char- 
 acter of the document presented. But if it were possible 
 to demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the 
 testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to 
 unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the 
 world conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their 
 hands, then the very 'mystery of lawlessness* would be 
 infringed upon, and it must remain intact until its in- 
 carnation in the 'son of destruction/ " Then he goes on 
 to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, 
 and that there is only one force that can save it, and that 
 is the "God-Anointed Tsar of Russia." The omitted 
 portions of the Nilus book show distinctly that it is a 
 work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus 
 denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and 
 all movements leading toward progress. 
 55
 
 4 
 
 $6 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, 
 realizing that these passages wotilfi disclose to intelli- 
 gent people the real motive of the Nilus protocols and 
 thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them in 
 the translations. 
 
 Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious 
 Nilus book, which are his own utterances and do not 
 purport to constitute a part of the Protocols. They are 
 translated from a photographed copy of the volume in 
 
 the British Museum: 
 ******** 
 
 "We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man 
 close to us, now deceased, a manuscript in which are described 
 with unusual precision and clearness the course and progress 
 of the universal fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world 
 to an inevitable catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us 
 about four years ago (in 1901) with the assurance that it was 
 an accurate copy a translation of the original documents stolen 
 by a woman from one of the most powerful and sacred directors 
 of Freemasonry after one of the secret meetings of the 'initiates' 
 in France, the present nest of the Freemasen's sect. This manu- 
 script under the general title 'Protocols of Meetings of the Wise 
 Men of Zion' I now call to the attention of all who wish to 
 see or hear. These 'Protocols' at a first cursory glance might 
 seem to be what we are accustomed to call truisms ; they are more 
 or less commonplaces although expressed with a boldness and 
 a hatred not altogether customary in commonplaces. A proud, 
 deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time secretly growing, and 
 what is more frightful than all, a religious rage boils between 
 the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the overfilled vessel 
 of violence and vengeance, already approaching complete triumph. 
 "It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manu- 
 script does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols 
 of a meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided 
 into parts which are not even always logically connected: the 
 impression remains that this is a fragment of something much 
 more significant, the beginning of which has been lost The 
 origin of the manuscript, as given by us above, furnishes suf- 
 ficient explanation of this. 
 ********
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 57 
 
 "We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal 
 character of the document presented. But if it were possible 
 to demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testi- 
 mony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil 
 the faces of those who are at the head of the world conspiracy 
 and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very 
 'mystery of lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must 
 remain intact until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.' 
 In the complexity of the present criminally-earthly process we 
 must not search for direct evidence; we are forced to content 
 ourselves with indirect proof and of these it seems that the 
 attention of the sad Christian observer is fully satisfied. 
 
 "The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole repub- 
 lican era of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of 
 those elected to office has to this time ever done what he prom- 
 ised to do, if the demands of his electors did not coincide with 
 the plans of the government of Zion. 
 
 "What has become of unfortunate France! . . . 
 
 " 'Let him who has ears, listen !' " 
 ******** 
 
 " 'Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times 
 some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, 
 and doctrines of devils; 
 
 "'Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared 
 with a hot iron; 
 
 " 'Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from 
 meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving 
 of them which believe and know the truth.' 
 
 "Is net this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole 
 world ?!" 
 ******** 
 
 "In every age there have been many women 'drowning in sin 
 and led on by various lusts': the ebb and flow of this sin in 
 woman's heart characterized whole epochs of particular human 
 defection but at no time of the seeming triumph of sin have 
 there been women 'constantly studying' this sign represents en- 
 tirely a universal inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic 
 of our epoch. 
 
 "Who is ignorant of the so-called 'woman question,' the eman- 
 cipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up 
 so many families and which threatens an even greater disruption 
 in the future ?1 . , ,
 
 58 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother aban- 
 dons her true mission. Is not this the greatest and most un- 
 fortunate world revolution!" 
 
 **** * * * * 
 
 "The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried 
 the roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a 
 different name it entered into a league with united England, 
 with whom, after having let it in behind the curtain of its 
 secret and having declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates 
 even to the present day, helping out England in her exploits 
 over the whole world with its capital and concessions, in which 
 respect the Sanhedrin was never penurious. 
 
 "As to the question why England and no other European gov- 
 ernment was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting 
 Sanhedrin, the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to 
 think that the cause is to be found in the isolated island position 
 of the sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship 
 between the English and the Jews.* 
 
 "Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of 
 Masonic lies (the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved 
 for them also), possessing countless millions, in face of the 
 general fall of the Christian spirit among the European peoples, 
 in whom there was artificially spread and supported the cult of 
 the golden calf; having poisoned the idea of godliness and 
 spirituality in the heart of the peoples by 'scientific' theories, the 
 Sanhedrin the priest of the golden idol created by it, has gained 
 control of the spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, 
 with the help of its gold, with the sold consciousness of those 
 standing at the helm of power, and with the help of its faithful 
 ally England, it has corrupted and perverted all the political 
 foundations of Europe, and through them the well-being and 
 spiritual health of its population. The French revolution, glori- 
 fied by the Masonized historical science of 'greatness' and the 
 fall of the 'great' Napoleon have shown to the world the sig- 
 nificance and strength of the Sanhedrin. But the world did not 
 recognize the new .manifestation of Satan: at that time the 
 words of truth of the Evangel and the apostolic foresight had 
 become alien to him." 
 
 * As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries to prove that 
 the English are the descendants of one of the scattered tribes of 
 Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course of contemporary sci- 
 ence, is not ashamed to produce whatever theories are advantageous 
 to them. According to certain tenuous evidences in the air it seems 
 that a new theory is being produced according to which the honor of 
 birth relationship with the God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to 
 America and , . , Japan. AVIS A L'ANGLETERREl . . . )
 
 CHAPTER FIVE 
 FORGERS DISAGREE 
 
 The Butmi Protocols "Representatives of Zion" Not to be Con- 
 founded 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. 
 
 In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has 
 been made, and which contains the "Rabbi's Speech" 
 already considered, there is to be found still another ver- 
 sion of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred 
 writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the 
 Black Hundred organization. Appropriately enough it 
 was published by the Society of Deaf and Dumb, as will 
 be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the title page. 
 With exceeding naivete Butmi published the forged speech 
 attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as 
 proof of the genuineness of the protocols, and side by 
 side with the fabricated speech appears the Butmi ver- 
 sion of the protocols which had undergone further 
 changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of "the 
 documents" by Serge Nilus. 
 
 The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 
 version read as follows: 
 
 "PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSI- 
 TORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE OF ZION. 
 
 "'(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages 
 of Zion of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)' 
 59
 
 60 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, 
 dedicated to the Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as 
 Jewish documents. In his introduction thie author says, 
 in part, as follows: 
 
 "These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in 
 fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in Decem- 
 ber, 1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories 
 again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be rein- 
 forced by definite information as to the place, day, month, year, 
 where and when they were composed. 
 
 " 'The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of 
 Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal 
 plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their authen- 
 ticity, and from several details he will suppose with great cer- 
 tainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the docu- 
 ments of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, 
 which is joined mostly by Jews. . . . 
 
 "'But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and 
 place where the protocols were composed might call forth in 
 the reader, who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of 
 Masonic doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these docu- 
 ments.' " 
 
 At the end of the "protocols" published in this edition 
 by Butmi, in 1907, there appears a note by the man who 
 declares that he had secured and translated the docu- 
 ments from the French, on December 9, 1901, and in the 
 very first two lines of his note, he states that the repre- 
 sentatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not 
 to be confounded with the representatives of the Zionist 
 movement. The Russian mystic Serge Nilus, in his later 
 editions, connected the documents with the Zionist Con- 
 gress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, 
 Dr. Theodore Herzl. 
 
 The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives 
 a version of "the political plan devised by the Wise Men 
 of Zion." This translator, however, states that the "po-
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 61 
 
 litical plan was conceived 929 years before the birth of 
 Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in 
 theory." 
 
 Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator's 
 Note: 
 
 BO 6C.1H HMT> H6 flaTb KpOBH, OHH H6 CUSlTb, & <5opK)TCfl... 
 
 flpHMtsame nepeeoAHKKa. 
 
 HsjioaceHHbie npotoKOJiH noffnucaHti QOHCKHMH npeflCTaBHTeJiSMU 
 (ae CM-BinHBafiie CT> npeacTaBiiTejmMH cioancTCKaro ABiimeHifl). OHH 
 BuxBaieHH H3T> uliJiofl KHHFH npoTOKOJioBi, Bcero coflepHtaBla 
 Koiopofi He y^a'jiocb nepenHcaib no KpaiKOcra BpeMean, flaaaaro 
 Ha npOHTenie HXI> ncpeBo^HHKy 3THxi> npoiokoJioB'b. K-B 
 OHjio npnJio;K6HO eiue Hedojibiiioe npu6aBaeaie 11 nnaB3< aaBo 
 Mipa EspeflMH MupabiM-b nyieMt. STII npoxoKOJibi H HepTeacT> 
 
 Ha ^paeuyscKoa xeppnTopiH. 
 Ha ynoMflHyroM'b lepTeafb aHannjica sees no.iHTii^ecKifl 
 Cioaa no oTHomeaiio KI> HMtioinHM-b 6utb npoflaenHtiMH 
 
 Translator's Note. 
 
 "The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of 
 Zion (do not confound them with the representative of the 
 Zionist movement). They were taken out of a whole book of 
 protocols, the entire contents of which it was impossible to copy 
 because of the short time allowed the translator for reading 
 these protocols. A small appendix was attached to them and 
 a plan of conquering the world by the Jews by peaceful means. 
 These protocols and the Sketch were taken from the secret 
 depositories of the Main Office of Zion, now located on French 
 territory. 
 
 "The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political 
 plan of Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through 
 by this movement and to the means of passing from one to 
 another. The aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years 
 before the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon 
 and the Judean Sages in theory; according to historical events, 
 it was elaborated and enlarged by their followers initiated in 
 this plan.
 
 62 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for 
 Zion, with the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head 
 should be composed of the Jewish Government initiated in the 
 plans of the Wise Men (always masked even to their people), 
 and the body the Jewish nation. 
 
 "Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has 
 undermined or eaten away all non- Jewish governmental powers, 
 according to their growth, in various continents, but particularly 
 in Europe, which he should do also in the future, following 
 exactly the outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road 
 travelled by it will close by the return of the head of the Snake 
 to Zion, that is, until this snake will include in the sphere of 
 its circle all Europe, and through Europe the whole world, 
 utilizing all forces conquered by economic means in order to 
 draw the other continents into the sphere of its cycle. . . . 
 
 "For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has 
 made it possible to carry out everything that was desirable in 
 the interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities 
 commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the 
 majority of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that 
 the decisions of that majority became the determining factor in 
 questions of national life. The crowd always in need, or the 
 greedy intelligent class, short-sighted liberals and other blind 
 people have also rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the 
 republican is the most desirable and convenient form of govern- 
 ment for Zion because it gives full sway for the activities of the 
 armies of Zion for anarchists of thought and action, called 
 socialists. 
 
 "All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands 
 of the nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the 
 ocean of humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, 
 every member of which is familiarized with the plan of action 
 worked out in the course of centuries, from which he cannot 
 deviate. The politics of the goyim is the politics of accidental 
 circumstances, engineered by the Jews, and tends not towards 
 perfecting the affairs of the state, but towards struggle for the 
 sake of greed, or more often for the personal aggrandizement 
 of the administrators. 
 
 "From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory 
 and the guidance of the world. 
 
 "Translation from the French, December 9, 1901."
 
 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 "Sym- 
 bolic 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. 
 
 As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the 
 "literature" produced under the auspices of the Russian 
 Black Hundred organizations which sought to save the 
 Czar's throne by pogroms, I examined a large number 
 of publications brought out in Russia during the 
 period when "the Russian Mystic," Sergius Nilus, pub- 
 lished his pretended discovery, the "Protocols." His book, 
 "The Great in the Small and anti-Christ," appeared in 
 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian 
 revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar's 
 government. A new organization was formed for the sup- 
 port of the Russian throne. It was known as "the Union 
 of the Russian People," "the Black Hundred," whose 
 program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia 
 adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of vengenance a 
 pogrom policy. The "Black Hundred" held the Jews re- 
 sponsible for Russia's defeat in the war and for the at- 
 tempted revolution, and neither the Czar nor his loyal 
 organization of the "Black Hundred" ever forgave Count 
 Sergius Witte, who won for Russia at the Portsmouth 
 Peace Conference what she had lost on the battlefields, for 
 inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to Russia. 
 "The Black Hundreds" nicknamed Witte "the Jewish 
 Count of Portsmouth." They attacked him and at- 
 tempted to assassinate him. They assassinated at that 
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 64 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
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 FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK PUB- 
 LISHED IN 1907 CONTAINING ANTI- JEWISH AND ANTI-BlUT- 
 ISH ATTACKS.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 65 
 
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 PE&CTABJIEHHLrf! nojiimreecRi& naairc, 
 3tn'fl, 
 
 TeopiH, no nip* xe HcropHiecKass co6H- 
 
 iiS paspaSaTHBaeirb a aono.iHaein> npoc- 
 
 9rn wyjpeuu piiunjin smpno 
 nip!, wa CioHa, et xHTpocitio CHMBOJIH- 
 qecKaro 3Mia. Fjiasa 3Hia nsoSpaaraeil. 
 a ryjoBame eapojcs 
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 3MiB 3Ton> noffraiHBaeit HJH no-' 
 Bci ee iyaeicKia rocyaapCTBeH- 
 HHfl CHJIH, no nipt Hxi> pocia ua paa- 
 
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 npH TOIHOMI c.iiOBaHia no", npex- 
 jsaiepraHiain> njaaa, so rtx-b nop,. : .ttOKa UHiurb npoBseH- 
 naro ant nyre He coMKHeica BOSBpaToir^^juiaBH 3Mia na 
 ,CioH%^ TO ecrb nofta OTOTB 3Mift se; saBjnOTOn, KB. 
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 ciapawTca BHCCTH 
 Bctim 
 
 FACSIMII.E FHOM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD 
 AND THE JEWS/' PUBLISHED IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE 
 U8F.D BY NlLUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE PROTOCOW?,
 
 66 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 nyrem. cmiaMB, ^To6w sasjieii. ro c$epy ceoero qmwa ocrm- 
 
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 ax^ roeBi" H UHKJn> 3nia noaBHraetca BT. XX CTOJ*TIK 
 6HCTpOTofl sypbepcKaro wuxemx KB naMt^eHHOfl CBoett utaH. 
 
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 CioHCKHXi HCHAOBCKHXI MyipeaoB^ Becb ojiaHi aaBoeBama 
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 ysaxeHia CBSTOCTH nepKBH H npeiaHHOcta Uap 
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 ffeu pynax^, .iero se 
 
 Bca T iyHa 6bijia yse nojn, mnaoBCKoa onaH)io. 
 omeica CBKO noKO, e 6a TI ,, a n<m> -ipoHyT* 
 
 FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD 
 AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED IN IQO7, SHOWING THE PASSAGE 
 USED BY NlLUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE PROTOCOLS,
 
 THE HISTORY OF] A LIE <Sfc 
 
 time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and 
 Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobo- 
 mania that Sergius Nilus published his book introducing 
 the "Protocols" in Russia. 
 
 In my investigation I naturally examined the works 
 of the Russian arch anti-Semite, Ippolit Lutostansky, who 
 first accused the Jews of the most despicable crimes, and 
 then, in 1882, after the occurrence of the pogroms in the 
 south of Russia, wrote a volume retracting all his previous 
 anti-Jewish accusations, and declaring anti-Semitism to be 
 nothing but an outgrowth of ignorance and malice. Sev- 
 eral years later he resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and 
 became one of the most vicious vilifiers of the Jewish 
 people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair which was 
 staged by the Russian government for the purpose of 
 discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian gov- 
 ernmental anti- Jewish policy before the world. After the 
 collapse of the Beilis prosecution, which involved the 
 absurd charge of ritual murder, Lutostansky approached 
 several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to retract 
 his new charges against the Jews, provided they would 
 pay him a certain amount of money for his book. The 
 Jews declined to have anything to do with the charlatan 
 who had caused so much harm to the Jews of Russia by 
 his monstrous accusations. His works attracted special 
 attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and 
 supported by Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager 
 Empress of Russia. 
 
 While examining one of his books entitled, "The Tal- 
 mud and the Jews," published in 1907, in which he prom- 
 ised the publication of "the Protocols of the Wise Men 
 of Zion" in his forthcoming volume, I came upon an 
 amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged 
 secret plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which
 
 68 [THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 I find reproduced, word for word, with but a few phrases 
 changed, in the epilogue of "the Russian mystic," Sergius 
 Nilus. Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize Lutostansky? Or 
 was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus ? Or were they 
 one and the same person? At any rate, both served the 
 purposes of the "Black Hundreds" against the Jews, and 
 both employed the same weapons. 
 
 Here is a translation of Lutostansky's introduction: 
 
 From Lutostansky's Introduction, 1907 
 EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE 
 
 "The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very 
 old and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the 
 course of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented 
 by their initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the 
 world peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. 
 The head of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the 
 body the Judaean nation. Crawling into the bosoms of govern- 
 ments, this snake undermines eats away all non- Judaean govern- 
 mental forces, as they grow on various continents, but especially 
 in Europe, which it is to do also in the future, carefully fol- 
 lowing the outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled 
 by it is completed by the return of the head of the snake to 
 Zion, that is until this snake will include within the sphere of 
 its circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the whole 
 world. First of all they are endeavoring to introduce everywhere 
 irreligion and moral decadence, utilizing all forces they have 
 won economically in order to drag the other continents into the 
 sphere of their cycle. As the return of the head of the snake 
 could be accomplished only over the razed ruins of the govern- 
 mental power of all European countries, through the collapse 
 of this power, through economic disorganization and ruin, intro- 
 duced by Zion everywhere by means of moral decadence. Cor- 
 ruption is introduced with the aid of Jewesses under the guise 
 of French or Italian women, who even undergo fictitious baptism 
 for these purposes and then become the wives of prominent 
 men, like the biblical Esther, and they are always accompanied 
 by their Mordecais, and make their politic! for the good of the
 
 HISTORY OF A LIE 69 
 
 Jew?. These so-called French and Italian women are the best 
 carriers of immorality from place to place. These women are 
 used for those who, because of them, are always in need of 
 money, and therefore willingly barter their conscience to secure 
 money at any cost. The money is reality only loaned to such 
 con science-bar terers, for it quickly comes back to the hands of 
 
 Asia yxyn> nftwtfaSiaeirtt $pajHiy3 
 K&niouanefi. 
 
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 eratf yipezjieaifi, 3roBaeMui an *pamriB> 
 oootWHira cocfasaMH e npaaBtejbcm, 
 wo Apef%capOBCxaa jpnuovatia Bucrynaetk aa 
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 OR Mwofl- Asia.' 
 
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 ayrem, qxoCu noAiHBHTb CBOCiiy B.iiHHiio, 
 iiiaii6 CBoero nawa-i B ocrajibBue KOBTHHreaTu. 
 
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 roBHU\H'Bero CO nopoau BonBtTBymaro llapaiu* 
 
 FACSIMILE OF PAGE OF SERGE NILUS'S BOOK 
 CONTAINING THE PROTOCOLS SHOWING THE SAMB 
 PASSAGE AS IN LUTOSTANSKV'S BOOK.
 
 70 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 those loaned the money, as it is squandered with the aid of 
 these women soon after they receive it. The Zionist nets are 
 spread out on all the roads of the goyim (gentiles) and the 
 cycle of the snake is moving along in the Twentieth century with 
 the speed of an express train towards its goal. 
 
 "The complete outline of all the secret protocols of the Zionist 
 Jewish sages, the entire plan of the conquest of the whole world, 
 will be included in the next (seventh) volume of 'The Talmud 
 nd the Jews.'" 
 
 And this is a facsimile reproduction and translation of 
 Sergius Nilus's epilogue taken from the copy of the 
 "Protocols" in the British Museum, from which the 
 American translation was made. 
 
 From the Nilus Epilogue, 1917 
 
 "According to secret Jewish Zionism, a political plan was de- 
 vised in theory for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, 
 by Solomon and other sages already 929 years before the birth 
 of Christ. In the course of historical developments, the plan 
 was elaborated and augmented by their followers initiated in 
 this affair. These sages decided to conquer the world peace- 
 fully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake, whose 
 head should constitute the government of the Jews initiated in 
 the plans of the sages (always masked even from their own 
 people) and the body the Judean nation. Penetrating the bos- 
 oms of the governments encountered on the way, this snake 
 has undermined and eaten away (overthrowing) all govern- 
 ments, non- Jewish forces according to their growth. 
 
 "This it should also do in the future, carefully following the 
 outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is com- 
 pleted by the return of the head of the snake to Zion, and until 
 the snake will thus include and concentrate in the sphere of its 
 circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the rest of the 
 world, utilizing all forces of conquest and by economic means 
 in order to subject also the other continents to its influence, to 
 the influence of its cycle. The return of the head of the snake 
 could be accomplished only over the razed plains of the govern- 
 mental power of all the European countries, that is through
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 71 
 
 economic disorganization and ruin, introduced by Zion every- 
 where by means of spiritual decadence and moral turpitude, 
 chiefly, with the aid of Jewish women under the guise of French, 
 Italian and Spanish women, the best introducers of immorality 
 into the conduct of the rulers of nations. Women in the hands 
 of Zion serve as bait for those, who owing to them are always 
 in need of money, and therefore barter their conscience in order 
 to get money at any cost. This money, in fact, is only loaned to 
 them, for it quickly comes back to the hands of bribing Zion 
 through these very women, and at the same time they have 
 secured slaves for Zion." 
 
 A comparison of these pages shows that Nilus merely 
 added to Lutostansky's version the statement to be found 
 in Butmi's version that the political plan for the peaceful 
 conquest of the world for Zion, was devised in theory by 
 Solomon and other sages p-?p years before the birth of 
 Christ. Lutostansky said in 1907 that "the head of the 
 snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body the 
 Judean nation," while Nilus said that the "head should 
 constitute the government of the Jews initiated in the plans 
 of the sages (always masked even from their own people) 
 and the body the Judean nation." Thus the sages of 
 Zion were transformed by Nilus into "the government 
 of the Jews" in order to connect the "political plan" all 
 the more closely with the "protocols." The American 
 editors have omitted this part of the Nilus epilogue, evi- 
 dently because it seemed even to them too absurd for 
 American consumption. 
 
 All of the literature about the "protocols" that ap- 
 peared in various parts of the world in 1920 is based on 
 the "documents" vouched for by the mysterious Sergius 
 Nilus, and fortified by the irresponsible Jew-baiter and 
 intellectual pervert Ippolit Lutostansky. 
 
 That the Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi campaign was just 
 what the Tsarist government desired may be seen from
 
 72 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 the photographic reproduction of the letter sent to 
 Lutostansky by Grand Duke Michael, who was regarded 
 as the most liberal among the Russian Grand Dukes. The 
 letter appears together with other letters of congratula- 
 tion from members of the Imperial family in the volume 
 containing the passages quoted above. 
 
 CocToamjfl npn 
 
 Focyaapt HacjrtAHHKfc 
 
 BEJIHKOITb KHH3* MlWOCTHBMft 
 
 EPO HM1JEPATOPCKOE BLICOTECTBO 
 
 rocyflAPb HACJIUJIHHK'B H BEJiHKift 
 
 KHfl3bMHXAHJn>AJIEKCAHAPO- 
 
 B H 1 T> coBSBOJiBJii 6jarociuoHHo 
 
 noAHeceHHtifl BSMH Tpyn ..Taji 
 
 cpHieMi EFO BbIC04ECTBy 
 
 6uao nopyiHTb UH* iiepeAaifc BaMt, EFO 
 
 HCKpeHHK) npHBHaieabHOCTb aa B*rae 
 
 BeceHie. 
 
 BjaroBOJiHTe npiraaTi, B MO 
 rjyOoKyio npH3HaT&ii>HOCTb aa 
 MB* 9KseMDJijipi Bamefl Kaara. 
 
 Ero BucoKo6iaropoAi Hpomy Baci npHHaik yBtpenie n co- 
 
 H. I. JbOTOCTaHCKOMj. BcpmeiiHOMi, nioeui yBaxeaiu a 
 
 Bcer^a roroBufl KT> ycjiyram Jf. flauocon. 
 
 LETTER OF THANKS SENT BY GRAND DUKE MICHAEL TO LUTOS- 
 TANSKY FOR HIS ANTI-SEMITIC WORK. 
 
 For the benefit of the antisemitic agitators in England, 
 such as the editors of The Morning Post, The New Wit- 
 ness, The Spectator, Blackwood's Magazine, and a num- 
 ber of irresponsible publications needless to name, it will 
 prove instructive and interesting to reproduce a few addi- 
 tional passages from the same volume, in order that they 
 may know and appreciate not only what that authority
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 73 
 
 said concerning the Jews but also what he thought of the 
 English. 
 
 On pages 279, 282 and 283 of volume six of "The 
 Talmud and the Jews," after outlining the alleged Jewish 
 plot to gain world dominion, Lutostansky wrote, in 1907 : 
 
 "The English are typical pure-blooded Israelites. In ancient 
 times they were all red-headed, as we see from the descriptions 
 in the Bible and the New Testament. The characteristic of the 
 Israelites is known to the whole world under the sun. The 
 characteristic of the English, if we follow it closely, does not 
 differ from the Jewish in the slightest degree. Who are the 
 English? This question has long occupied the minds of many 
 people in Europe, as well as in England itself. The universal 
 trading traits of the sons of Albion, their looting politics, based 
 on unfair business, and many other characteristic traits of the 
 nation which are not peculiar to any of the other European na- 
 tions that are even less cultured and civilized that the English 
 all these have long seemed very suspicious and have drawn 
 attention to a certain kinship between the Anglo-Saxons and 
 the Jews. During the past two decades, in England and America, 
 also on the European continent, particularly in France, a whole 
 literature has been created, proving on the basis of many facts, 
 suppositions and historical references, that the origin of the 
 Anglo-Saxon race is not Germanic, but Semitic, that the Eng- 
 lish are the direct descendants of the Israelites, thrown by his- 
 toric fate to the shores of the distant Albion. . . . 
 
 "Indeed, the lion of Judah, has become the British lion and 
 adorns the coat of arms of the King of England. The harp 
 of King David to this day represents the coat of arms of Ire- 
 land. . . . 
 
 "But not only are the kings of England the direct descendants 
 of Jewish Kings, they are even seated on the throne of David, 
 on which the ancient Jewish kings were married. This throne, 
 on which Jacob fell asleep on that night when he dreamt of 
 the ladder and when the Lord promised the kingdom tojiis 
 posterity. This stone, called 'the Stone of Fate,' which served 
 for the weddings of Jewish Kings, was brought to Ireland by 
 the prophet Jeremiah. Tergus (?) transferred it to Scotland, 
 whence it was taken to London.
 
 74 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "It is curious to note that many prophecies about this fate 
 of Israel fit England absolutely, as for instance, the prophesy 
 that Israel will become a great nation, a kingdom on islands, 
 ruling over large colonies. 
 
 "North America is inhabited by the tribe of Menasseh of 
 whom it was said in ancient prophesy that he will become a 'sepa- 
 rate great nation." The very word saxon is derived from Isaac- 
 son, that is the son of Israel. . . . 
 
 "As one of the signs of kinship between the population of 
 England and ancient Israel, we cannot help pointing out the 
 close similarity between the English and Jewish tribes, the 
 similarity in their manner of speech, and above all, trading as 
 the fundamental characteristic of both nations. . . . 
 
 "The particular reverence in which the English hold the Bible 
 smacks of the Old Testament of the Jews. Even the preference 
 on the part of the English for long clothes indicates something 
 Asiatic. . . . 
 
 "Arousing of late the unanimous indignation of the whole 
 civilized world, the English at the same time call forth amaze- 
 ment at their traits, instincts and aspirations which positively 
 make them a monster in the family of cultured and civilized 
 European nations. As the proverb says, there is no family with- 
 out a black sheep. Every monstrosity, however, is to be ex- 
 plained Jews come from Jews." 
 * * * * **** 
 
 This interesting information is taken from Lutostan- 
 sky's book. Nilus and other writers of the Black Hun- 
 dred camp pictured England in the same manner imme- 
 diately after 1905. It was then the Russian govern- 
 mental policy to discredit England and the Jews in the 
 eyes of the Russian people, and the Black Hundreds were 
 employed by the Tsar as the medium through which to 
 carry on this agitation. 
 
 The "Black Hundreds" started their campaign in 1905, 
 but their work was so venomous, so absurd and so steeped 
 in ignorance that there were few people even in Russia 
 who paid any attention to it. 
 
 That the Nilus protocols which were published by the 
 Black Hundreds were not taken seriously in Russia by 
 the reactionaries or even by the Black Hundreds who
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 75 
 
 sought every means of discrediting the Jews, may be 
 gathered from the fact that in the most stupendous anti- 
 Jewish plot ever devised by the Russian government to 
 justify Jewish massacres, the notorious Beilis case, the 
 protocols published eight years previously were never used 
 by the prosecution, even though it resorted to every foul 
 means that could be conjured up of slandering and vilify- 
 ing the Jewish people. The very persons who were in- 
 strumental in spreading the "protocols" in Russia in 1905 
 seemed to have realized that the false accusations which 
 they contained were too transparent and too clumsy to 
 deceive even the most credulous, and so they were dis- 
 carded. 
 
 But suddenly, after the armistice, a new edition of the 
 Nilus book containing the "protocols," dated 1917, made 
 its appearance as suitable to the chaotic conditions that 
 prevailed in Russia and during the past two years, as 
 has been shown, it was reproduced in various countries. 
 This time the antisemitic propagandists are trying to 
 connect the "protocols" directly with Theodore Herzl 
 and the Zionist movement. The war, the peace treaty 
 and bolshevism are characterized as the fulfillment of 
 these "protocols" which they say had been devised no 
 less than 929 years before the birth of Christ, by Solomon 
 and other Sages. The present "protocols" have been 
 elaborated from the "Retclifre-Goedsche" versions by the 
 Russian secret police department and the Black Hundreds 
 who ascribed all the evils in the world to the Jews. 
 
 The Black Hundred writer, G. Butmi, whose book 
 "Enemies of the Human Race," containing the fabricated 
 speech by a "famous Rabbi" side by side with the "pro- 
 tocols," gives several characteristic passages in his intro- 
 duction that will convey to the reader a clear conception 
 of the type of men who have stood behind the movement
 
 76 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 to discredit the Jews through the so-called "protocols." 
 On page 36 of this volume, Butmi wrote: 
 
 "The French Revolution, which ended in the execution of 
 Louis XVI in 1793, was engineered by England with the aid of 
 the Jews and the Judaized Masons. Only the Jews profited by 
 the French Revolution, even as they profited by the English 
 Revolution, attaining in the general turmoil equal rights with 
 the native population of France." 
 
 Discussing the traits of the English people and finding 
 a similarity between them and the Jews, Butmi said on 
 page 38: 
 
 "The British traits are well known all over the world their 
 exceptional selfishness, their inhuman cruelty to foreigners, their 
 inherent instinct of exploitation, their theoretical stupidity are 
 mingled with practical shrewdness and utter brazenness." 
 
 On page 39 he said : 
 
 "Meanwhile the Britons have not distinguished themselves in 
 anything, if we are not to take into consideration the fact that 
 being thoroughly incapable of creating their own language, they 
 have by their talent to distort languages given to the present 
 English people a repulsive Judeo-Carthaginian imprint through 
 their shameless self-satisfaction, arrogance and treacherous in- 
 clinations." 
 
 On page 41 he said : 
 
 "In 1843 the first lodge of the new Jewish union 'Bnai Brith' 
 was organized in New York. Gradually this Jewish 'Bnai 
 Brith' concentrates in its hands the direction of all Masonic 
 lodges in America, and through them it directs American poli- 
 tics."
 
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 78 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 [Translation of the Nihts Protocol published in Russia in 1905.] 
 
 "When we become rulers, we shall regard as undesirable the 
 existence of any religion except our own, proclaiming one God 
 with Whom our fate is tied as the Chosen People, and by Whom 
 our fate has been made one with the fate of the world. For 
 this reason we must destroy all other religions. If thereby 
 should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a transition step, 
 this will not interfere with our aims. It will serve as an ex- 
 ample to coming generations who will listen to the teachings of 
 the Mosaic religion. By its sound and reasonable system, we 
 have achieved the subjugation of all nations. We shall empha- 
 size its mystic law in which we will say lies all power. 
 
 "On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will 
 compare our beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of 
 peace, though achieved through centuries of turmoil, will stand 
 out in relief in this era of blessings. The shortcomings of the 
 Gentile administrations will be pictured by us in the darkest 
 colors. We will sow such antipathy toward their governments 
 that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of servitude to 
 the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them and 
 destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were 
 exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were 
 doing. The masses will become so satiated with the endless 
 changes of administration, which we instigated among the Gen- 
 tiles when we were undermining their governmental institutions, 
 that they will tolerate anything from us rather than risk under- 
 going again such struggle and hardships. We will especially 
 emphasize the historical mistakes of the Gentle administrations 
 which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack 
 of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pur- 
 suing fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that 
 these projects made worse instead of better the state of general 
 relationships which are the basis of human existences. 
 
 "The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie 
 in that they are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp 
 contrast to the old and decayed order of society. 
 
 "Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the 
 Gentile religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our re- 
 ligion from the true point of view except our own people. We 
 shall have a fundamental knowledge of it and will never dare 
 to disclose its secrets.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 79 
 
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 f uapb B% KptnocTHOM-b COCTOHHUI np'aBan> npecjOByrofl CBOfioaH, 
 crojib HaMyiiremea HXT> BI Teienie BtKosi, HcromuBTj cauna 
 BCTOIHHKH cyTnecTBOBaaia, nonnpaesrae npoioaHMuanH, de B*Aato- 
 HHMH, rro TBOpan*. 
 
 BeanoJiesHiiii, ae (JiaKTo, nepentHH npaBjieHia, Ha KOTOPHH MITT 
 xcb noa6HBajm, Koraa noaKanHBajin HIT. crpofl, ao Toro HUT. Ha<- 
 jiofenan ao Tin nopt, TTO OHH npeanoiryn. npHa>rrb Bee TO, ITO- 
 3iH mil HaBfl*eMi, Jinmb <5n ne pncKOBatb nepeHcnHTaib nepeatK- 
 Tbia HessroaH n BOJineaia... TfcMT> CoJi'be, TTO MH (5yaeMT>, ny6aHi- 
 ;HO KpHTHKOfl, ocoOeHHO Doa^epKHBatb omuOKD ynpaB-iesiH roes- 
 KHXI npaBaemfl, cTo^bKo B*KOBI> npoxyHirainHxi, leaoBtqecrBO- 
 BeaocraTKOMi cooOpasHTejibHOCTH Ha HCTHHHHJI 6.iara, BT noront a*. 
 
 ma-s 6un> HtKOTOpan, Mtpu STH yxyamajiH Bceofkuia 
 v nopaaoKT> crpo.s, Ha Koropon> 
 
 HaniH npHHimnH u utpu 6yayn> HMtib BT> CBOD nojibay TO, HTO- 
 BH 6yayn> Hcro^KOBaHH H BbicrasJieHH, KaKi> xoHtpacrb CT. paano- 
 ;RHBIDHMC^ crapuui nopaaKaMi o^mecTBeHHaro cxpoa. 
 
 HauiH (pHJioco<pbi Oyayrb oOcywaarb H KpHTHKOBatb BC* eeao- 
 -craTKn roeBCKHTb BtpoBauifl. BT. nein. OHH nani oTBtTUTb e MO- 
 ryrb no OTHomeBitT' Hamen Btpu, noiony STO HHKTO en Taftm. H 
 9Baen>, xpotcb HamHii rajiHyaiiCTOB'b H paBBitBoBi, a OHH Hnnoratt 
 ae Bbi.aaa.vn> HXT>, noroMy <rro Ha RKXT> ocaoBana cii.ia ynpacaenin . 
 nacTBon Hamea. 
 
 MH coaaajm OeayMHyw. rpaaByw, oTBpaTHTejibnyio JinrepaTypy. 
 -oco6eHHo BT> crpanaxi, HaausacMuxi nepeaoBUMH. nocnb BCTJTUIP- 
 Hla Hamero BO B.tacib uu HtKoiopoe BpeMS) He aanpcTiiui ea, BO 
 -6yaen> ee ncKopenaTb cTporo KPIITHKOB, ITOH oaa, KBK^ ocra- 
 rsob roeBCKim, pymi, peflbe(pHte oOpncoBHBa^a KOHTpacT 
 ^TO paaaaBaibta 6yaen> CT> Hamefl BUCOTU, CT> rbMT>, HTO Hcioaii 
 oo.iOTa roeBCKmci> 
 
 FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY 
 BUTMI IN 1907.
 
 8o THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 "In countries that are called advanced, we have created a 
 senseless, filthy, and disgusting literature. For a short time after 
 our entrance into power, we shall encourage its existence so 
 that it may show in great relief the contrast between it and the 
 written and spoken announcements which will emanate from our 
 exalted position. Our wise men, educated for leadership of the 
 Gentiles, will prepare speeches, plans, notes, and articles, through 
 which we shall influence their minds, directing them along the 
 lines of knowledge and understanding which we intend them to 
 follow." 
 
 [Translation of the same Protocol published by Butmi in Russia 
 in 1907, showing the changes made in the Protocols within 
 two years.} 
 
 "When we become rulers, we shall at each suitable occasion 
 compare our beneficent rule with the former unsystematic ad- 
 ministrations. . . . The mistakes of the administrations of the 
 Gentiles will be pictured by us in the most lurid colors : we will 
 sow such antipathy and hatred toward these governments that 
 the masses will prefer peace and quiet in a condition of servitude 
 to the rights of the so-called liberty which for many ages had 
 so tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human 
 existence and which were exploited by adventurers, who did not 
 realize what they were doing. 
 
 "The masses will become so satiated with the useless changes 
 of administration, which we instigated when we were under- 
 mining their institutions, that they will accept anything that we 
 may give them rather than risk undergoing again such struggle 
 and disorder. . . . Moreover, we will, through public criticism, 
 especially emphasize the mistakes of the Gentile administrations 
 which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack 
 of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pur- 
 suing fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that 
 these projects made worse instead of better the state of general 
 relationships which are the basis of human existence. 
 
 "Our principles and faith will be especially useful inasmuch as 
 they will be put forward and interpreted by us as a contrast to 
 the old and decayed order of society. 
 
 "Our philosophers will discuss and criticise the shortcomings 
 of the Gentile religions, but the latter will not be able to an- 
 swer with regard to our faith, for no one is acquainted with
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 81 
 
 its mysteries except our Rabbis and Tadmudists, and they will 
 never reveal it, for on them depends the power of guiding our 
 flock. 
 
 "We have created a senseless, filthy and disgusting literature, 
 especially in the so-called advanced countries. For a short time 
 
 345 
 
 iHTpocn,K> n npoHujwftBOcnw BO spesifr neperoBOposi- b co- 
 Mameaifl, HO m TOUT, <rro aa&jJBaeTc* B <M[moia.ibBuiiv JKIUW 
 EOMT,", HU CyAeiii Aepzmca nporaBonojoxBoft t&smtu a 
 6yAeMi KasatBca qecrauMH n eroBOpinBtiiiB. TaKiixi o6pa-' 
 son HapoAU H npaBHTejucraa roem, Kotopuxi uu npiymuB 
 cMorpfrrfr TOJBKO na nosasayfo ciopOBy toro, HTO MIJ "nii7. 
 npeacraBaaein, npHicyrb nact eiaf sa (Jjaroilrejea a cua- 
 cmejefl poja qejOBtqecEaro. 
 
 HaKasjoenpOTBBOAtacTBieMu SO^SHU Curt 
 
 Bl'COCTOaHiH OTBtTHTb BOBaofi Cl OC* <UM toU 1 
 
 crpaHt, Boropaa ocM'MHTca navi npoinBOjtfl- 
 
 CTBOBiTt, BO, CCJH H COCtjH 9TB 3 a jy MaWIl C.T8JS 
 KO-I-ICETHBHO npOTESl BaCl, TOVU XOJZBQ'.XiTb, 
 
 OTnopi BCeoCn;efi sofiaofi, 
 
 FjaBRHfi ycntxx BI DO.IP.TBBB saMKiacTOjiBTi tafiat ft npejt- 
 DpiflTiS: CJOBO HC AWISBO cowacoBaxtca cijtficrBiiH"ABTUOHaTa. 
 
 'Ki XBacTBiftMt 01 nonsy maposo saxyvaaiiaro- aan0 
 njasa, yate Cjnsaiuarocji vt, Boju&rfeaBOiiy Konny, MU'XOJXBU' 
 EUHyajait rocBCKia npaBHTejBCTBa JBO^M o(>n\ecT8eB- 
 nuin, MH"tHieMX, staiini noACTpoeHBMMis B'axn 
 npn noMomn xasi aadiiBaexoB ^sejHBofi Aep? 
 zacu* neiaiB, KOTopaa, sa tte'MHorauit HCBUIIO-. 
 qeuiflMH, c% ROiopuMff c^nraibca ae crojm, 
 eca yze BI pysazi Bamnxi. 
 
 'OAHBHI CJIOBOMI, itofo peawmptBaTE Samj cBCTCiry o6f- 
 sjania roeBcsaxi npapaie-iLCTBT. BI Eopoui, uti OABOMy an> 
 BBXI no^ay-eiit CBOK> CH.iy noBymeniaJor, T, e. Teppopoxv, 
 a Bciirt, ecJH aonyc-nrn, axi eoacrasie nporaBi aaci, iiu 
 
 OTBtTBUl AMepBKaHCKHMB BJB KHTafiCEHMB, HJU 
 
 npoTOKp.it. 
 
 MH WJIBU aapyTOitca xaa c5a - ficiin 
 paxa Eamn npOTiiBHiiKn MOMB 6u Bocnb.ibsoBaTtcn 
 naci. Mu AOJSBU oyjein> BiracicBBaii BI CAMUXI TOBBBXI 
 eupaaefliaxi H sarBOSABaxi upaBoeoro c.iOBapn onpaBABBia 
 
 FACSIMILE OF NILUS PROTOCOL WHICH WAS 
 PUBLISHED IN IOX>5 AND CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 
 
 1907.
 
 82 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 after our entrance into power we will not prohibit this literature, 
 but will weed it out by means of destructive criticism, in order 
 that, as a remnant of the Gentile ruins, there should be a stronger 
 contrast between the literature that will come down from Our 
 Height and that which emanated from the filthy mud of the 
 Gentile governments." 
 
 52 
 
 fljw aocrnaceHU storo, BO Bceft Espon*, a CT, noHouu> ea or- 
 BomeHia H na apyrnxi KOHTHHeHrarb, MH aojutsmj cosaaib Gpoxe- 
 Hia, npepeKaalfl. paaaopu n Bpaway. Bi STOMI laoaK&st norwa: BO 
 nepBurb, MH aepJKHM-b BT> ctpax-b BC-B crpaHM, lopomo Btflsuomw. 
 ITO MH BJiacTRU npoiwBcciii ao jKenaBin 693nop^oKR njni BOABO- 
 pim> nopflflOKi> B~b HHXT>. Ont npiiBbiKJiu BsatTb Bi> BacT> neo6xo- 
 AHMOe naB^enie: *u sanymajiu acw. Humu, npomxiymtia n rocydap- 
 ctnetHHue KaGunemu eft:uif>Ho<o noAutnuKOu, JKOHOMU^CCKUMU doto- 
 eofmMu UAU do.izoskiMu oGxiamejittmeaMu. Jlfla AOcriuceBla 3Toro 
 nocatSHaro oOcToaTCjibCTBa BaHi> naao Cbuio Boopyxim>ca 6ojibrao 
 iHTpocibn H aaate npoBHp.iiiBoen> BO spesw neperoBopos-b H oo. 
 rjiamealfl: HO BI> TOUT>, HTO HaauBaeicfl o<p(pucua.ibBuvi> asuKOicb, 
 tof floaatHbi 6ti.iu Kaaaxbca croBop<jnBHMH H npaBaHBHJtH. TOKHM* 
 oCpasom ron, xomopuxi Mtt npijvujiu CMompnmt mojiwo na no- 
 Kainyic ' cmopony mo:o, vmo MU ujut npedcmas.ixeMi, npllHHvaixr* 
 aaei erne sa OjaroatT&aefl H cnacHT&nefl poaa ienoB*TCCiMiro. 
 
 Ha Kaataoe npoTHBoatflciBie MU TOTOBH orBtmrb npOTHBoatfl- 
 CTBymefl CrpaH* BOSHOD ci coctaaMH. a com iworie Baayiianrfc 
 BOJmeKTHBEO aificruoBaTb npoiuBi Haci>. TO MU 3aBaseu'i> j'sea'b 
 
 BI> no.iimiKli saK.iwiaeTCH BI> Taflrt ea npea- 
 npbrrlfl: caoBa HC aoji*Hbi cornacoBaibca ci atDcTBUun 
 mrom. 
 
 N*5. 
 
 (no pyKonnca nporoitoa-b 2-fl). 
 
 Haul Beo6xoA*iTMO, iiofu BOQHU Be aaBaait Teppnropiaj&Huxi 
 BHroav 9to nepeeecerb BOO ay na axcmosiRHeeKyn noisy, aa KO- 
 topofl HauiH yCtaarca BI TOJTI>. TTO npeo6aaaaHie BaBHcan, orb 
 nauieu noMomu, a raicoe nojo^eHie Bemett orjacrb out cropouu BT 
 pacnopaxeHie Haraefl UHTepnaoiOHajibBoa areHTj-pu, o6.iaaamen 
 NnioiioHaMK raaai>, B30poBi>, Be nperpawaeHnun. HHKaRiiuH rpaHH- 
 aaioi- Toraa Hamn HBTepHauioBa-ibHua npasa coipyrb set na- 
 poanua npasa 5* Oyayn> x uxn npasuTb raKt. KaRi> rpaxaaBCsoe 
 
 FACSIMILE OF BUTMI PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 
 I9O7, SHOWING THE CHANGE MADE AFTER THE 
 
 RSVOLUTION.
 
 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 83 
 
 Thus it is seen that Butmi, publishing his version of 
 the "protocols" in 1907, two years after the Nilus 
 version had appeared, changed the text to suit his pur- 
 poses. In 1905, before the first Russian revolution, the 
 Nilus version of the "protocols" said "we will show one 
 of them our strength by means of violence, that is, by 
 terrorism" After the revolution, Butmi changed this 
 sentence to read "We have shown one of these govern- 
 ments our powers by assassination, by terrorism" 
 
 And now the introducers of the "protocols" in this 
 country and in Europe are pointing to bolshevism as the 
 fulfillment of the "documents" which have been concocted, 
 elaborated and changed by antisemites to serve the devi- 
 ous political purposes of their masters and their own. 
 
 The "protocols" came into the world with the trade- 
 mark, "made in Germany" and were elaborated under the 
 auspices of the "Russian Black Hundreds" in their efforts 
 to save the dying Russian autocracy. When the Russian 
 autocracy was overthrown and members of the "Black 
 Hundreds" were scattered in various lands, their financial 
 and "moral" support shattered, they set out in quest of 
 new sources of income. They are now resorting to their 
 old discredited methods in a new environment and thus 
 the poison of the Russian Black Hundreds is being 
 spread in England, Germany, France, the Scandinavian 
 countries, Japan, and even in this country. The voice 
 is the voice of dead despotic Russia, and the hand is the 
 hand of the same "Black Hundreds." 
 
 And now cowardly anonymous writers are embellishing 
 the "protocols," adding new lies to the old ones, making 
 accusations against the Jews that even Nilus-Lutostansky- 
 Butmi dared not make in darkest Russia. Perhaps 
 some day these new legends and absurd, malicious myths 
 may evolve into a new and revised edition of secret Jew- 
 ish "protocols."
 
 84 THE HISTORY OF A LIE 
 
 In periods of turmoil and unrest such venomous fab- 
 rications may gain credence among the ignorant and may 
 poison their minds. But, like all anti-semitic myths of 
 old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to destroy 
 themselves. A lie shuns the sunlight. It thrives in dark- 
 ness. It cannot survive analysis. The truth will prevail. 
 
 Israel has no secret protocols, no hidden designs. After 
 all its tribulations, its dream is still of peace, of justice 
 and of human brotherhood. After all the centuries the 
 word that came from Sinai and the message of the 
 prophets of old are still enshrined in its heart. Indeed 
 as has been aptly said: "The Holy Scriptures are the 
 only authentic protocols of the Wise Men of Zion." 
 
 THE END
 
 HERMAN BERNSTEIN 
 
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