The Protocols of Zion

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a conspiracy theory, which talks about how Jews are planning to take over the world. It was purposely written to make Jews look bad, while also spreading peoples' hatred of Jews. The Protocols have repeatedly been discredited, but people continue to believe the lies and even continue to spread the conspiracy theory. Though it has become a popular book and belief, both the conspiracy and its leaders, the Elders of Zion, never actually existed. In 1903, different parts of the Protocols were used in a Russian newspaper. The book has since been published into many different languages, but its exact origin still remains unknown. It describes the "secret plans" of Jews to rule the world by manipulating the economy, taking over the media, and starting religious conflict.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, anti-Communists brought the Protocols to the West. Then, copies of the Protocols started coming to Europe, the United States, South America and Japan.
However, in the year 1921, the London Times reported that the Protocols had been plagiarized from a "French political satire that never mentioned Jews." Later, yet more proof was found which pointed to the fact that one chapter of a Prussian novel entitled Biarritz, which was written in 1868 by a man named Hermann Goedsche, had also inspired the Protocols. 

Today, the only people who are known to believe in the Protocols are neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and people who don't believe the Holocaust even existed.

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