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

PROTOCOLS OF WISE MEN OF ZION 15Nilus, its true, secret aim was just the opposite; that is, the foundation ofan uncontested world domination by the Jews. He claimed that thepublic congress was a mere blind for a number of far more importantsecret sessions. In these secret sessions the Zionist leaders set forth theirplan for Jewish world conquest. It was there that those speechesallegedly were made: 'We shall everywhere arouse ferment, struggle,and enmity — we shall unleash a world war — we shall bring thepeoples to such a pass that they will voluntarily offer us worlddomination.'These speeches were taken down in shorthand and entered in theminutes. A courier of the congress was supposed to bring the terriblepapers from Basel to the German city of Frankfurt am Main, to bepreserved in the secret archives of the Rising Sun Lodge of Freemasons.But the courier was a traitor. On the way he spent the night at a littlecity in Baden. Some officials of the Ochrana were waiting for him therewith a staff of scribes, and that night the Protocols were copied in ahotel room. This was Nilus's story in 1905; but in a later edition he hasquite a different version; the mistress of a French Zionist stole thepapers from him and delivered them to the Ochrana. In later editions hegives still other versions. There is but one point to which he alwaysadheres: that he himself had received the papers from a certainSuchotin, marshal of nobility in the district of Chernigov, who hadreceived them from Ratchkovsky.The book was laid on the tsar's table. Its effect was strong but notlasting. At first the tsar was shaken, praised the book's wealth of ideas,its mighty perspective, and believed it all. But Ratchkovsky had gonetoo far. At that time, perhaps, the deepest sources of the forgery werenot discovered; but it soon became clear to the Russian public, who fora hundred years had been only too familiar with the methods of thesecret police, that such documents from the hand of the Ochrana did notcarry much weight. Minister Stolypin even succeeded in convincing thetsar of the forgery. The tsar gave orders that the book should no longerbe used as propaganda, for 'we must not fight for a pure cause withunclean weapons.' Not Nilus but Rasputin became the tsar's confessor.Nonetheless, the Ochrana did its best to spread its product among