Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

PROTOCOLS OF WISE MEN OF ZION 5The vision sends forth an icy chill and a breath of deadly truth.The demon of world domination has spoken. He has proclaimed thegreat secret: the world can be dominated. Bowed with weariness, thepeoples demand subjection. And those who resist will be tamed byterrible blows and sufferings. Modern society is charged with a magicalcurrent which in all men creates the same thoughts. The masses expectgreat things of their rulers. And for that reason, great things are easy.This is the true sense of the secret writings which we today know asThe Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion. Everything else in themdevelops from the basic idea that world domination is possible in ourtime: with sovereign contempt it is shown with what relative ease it canbe achieved. Later, at third, fourth, and fifth hand, these profoundthoughts were woven together with a figment of forgeries andpurposeful lies which confused and obscured the whole document to thepoint of unintelligibility. But precisely in that condition it could beswallowed without understanding by millions of readers, and this gaveit its great effect.Today we are in a position to re-create the original content of thedocument. Its content is how to establish dictatorship with the help —and abuse — of democratic methods. The genesis of Caesar-ism isdescribed. We are told that democracy, if carried to its extremeconclusion, provides the usurper with his best weapons. Furthermore,democracy, in the international field actually offers a dictator, who hasfirmly entrenched himself in one country, the possibility of worlddomination. This is the true content of the famous Protocols.Three generations ago a brilliant thinker wrote this secret formula forthe achievement of world domination. We know little concerning hislife. He was a French lawyer named Maurice Joly. He was, at the timehe wrote his little book, a conservative, legitimist and monarchist. Hehad no thought of writing a secret document; on the contrary, he had inmind a satire against Napoleon III, then emperor of the French. Whetherhe ever perceived that he was leaving behind him the prophecies of agreat seer; whether he ever guessed that his book embraced a politicaldoctrine of world-shaking force, we do not know.