Bernstein Herman - The History of a Lie

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Author of With Master Minds, Etc.

NEW YORK
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY
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Copyright, 1921, By J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company

Herman Bernstein.

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The Mysterious Protocols

The Lie of a Jewish World ConspiracyIs There a Jewish Conspiracy?Anonymous AccusationsThe Mysterious Protocols of Sergei NilusHow did Nilus Secure Them?Contradictory ExplanationsWho is Nilus? How his Sponsors DisagreeWhat Russian Publicists Say

The Story From Which the Protocols Were Fabricated

Essence of Protocols Was German Fiction of Sir John RetcliffeWho Was Retcliffe?His Infamous RecordHis Bloodcurdling StoryThe Meeting in the CemeteryAn Avowed MythMeeting Every Hundred Years Attended by Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of IsraelThe Son of the Accursed Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes

Fiction Forged Into Fact

The Lie in its Second StageThe Tale Becomes FactThe Rabbis SpeechIts Authenticity Vouched for by RetcliffeAn Illuminating FootnoteA Dedication to The Russian Black HundredsThe Imaginary Speech Bears Witness to Authenticity of Protocols, Themselves Based on SpeechThree Stages of the Lie

The Russian Sponsors of the Forgery

Nilus on the ProtocolsOnly the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia Can Save the WorldPassages from Nilus Omitted by TranslatorsOn TolstoyOn the Emancipation of WomenOn the Sanhedrin and its Faithful Ally, England

Forgers Disagree

The Butmi ProtocolsRepresentatives of Zion Not to be Confounded with ZionistsButmi Contradicts NilusPlan for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.The Symbolic SnakeUniversal Suffrage a Jewish DeviceEvery Jew Familiar with Plot

The Black Hundreds, Their Dupes and Crimes

Russia in 1905The Unsuccessful RevolutionThe Reaction and the ReactionariesLutostansky and His WorkThe Symbolic Snake According to LutostanskyWho Plagiarized?Lutostansky on the English PeopleAre the English the Lost Tribes?How the Protocols Were Doctored by ButmiConclusion

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 Fords Dearborn Independent.

In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports to be a book by one Sergius Nilus was published in Germany. During 1920 a translation was published in England 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 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 Russia? Blame the Jews. Was there a revolution in Germany? Blame the Jews. Who made the French Revolution? 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 Bolshevism? 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!