The The Protocols of the Elders of Zion probably represent the most famous example of "fake" text, conspiratorial, and still able today, to influence the opinion of wild individuals which ignorance and reject of their contemporary society aim at crystallizing against such and such cause. Thus, such as the phoenix who rises from the ashes, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion seem insubmersible: they constitute a perfect model of prophetic vision, apocalyptic and anti Jewish centered on the theme of world domination.
In the form of secret meeting reports which gather Jewish and Freemasons, the represent a "Zion Elder" who, talking to his peers gathered in a council, shows a conquest and domination plan of the world. This plan plans to infiltrate key jobs of international finance, media, power to infiltrate and throw out existing order (democratic and Christian) on the ruins which Jewish supremacy has to be established.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion first went unnoticed, gained fame after the upheaval of the Great War. Their denunciation in 1921 by the newspaper The Times (which contributed to make them famous) as a "fake" won't slow their diffusion down.
Why did they make the Protocols? What influence did these events such as The October Revolution, The Dreyfus affairs or World War I have on their propagation and above all their welcoming? Is this document in part inspired by the delirious Nazi way of thinking?
Otherwise, is this so called "secret document" really born in Russia? Or is it the fruit of successive borrows more or less skillful, especially in French? What are its exact sources?
Answer in this 54-minutes debate presented by Jacques Halbronn with the historians Daniel Lindenberg, Emmanuel Kreis and Pierre Barrucand and filmed at the Forum 104.
Nota Bene : in complement of this debate, we invite you to see another debate with Jean-Pierre Laurant, Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire et Emmanuel Kreis about Conspiracy Theories (July 2010)
