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Title: The History of a Lie
'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion'

Author: Herman Bernstein

Release Date: September 8, 2006 [EBook #19200]

Language: English

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THE HISTORY OF A LIE

_"The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"_

_"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."_
--OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

A STUDY
BY
HERMAN BERNSTEIN

AUTHOR OF "WITH MASTER MINDS," ETC.

NEW YORK

J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY
57 ROSE STREET

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY

_FOREWORD_

_This is the history of a Lie--of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for
the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction,
by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case,
who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was
gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of
the Russian secret police department and of the unscrupulous "Black
Hundreds" then utilized this fiction as the framework for the
"protocols" through which they sought to crush the Jews and prop up the
tottering Russian dynasty._

_Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, still dreaming of
their past glory and of a restoration o