WI: Protocols of the Elders of Zion never published

The Protocols is a famous (but 100% fake) anti-Semitic text published by the Russian Czar's secret police in the early 1900s. It details a supposed meeting between Jewish elders that concerned plans of world domination. Notably, Adolf Hitler cited it in Mein Kampf. Taught as fact in German schools during the Nazi era, it is generally considered one of the primary justifications Hitler made for the Holocaust.

So, what would happen if this book had never been published by the Russians? I think it might reduce the ubiquity of the "The Jews Control Everything" conspiracy theory, for one.
 
The Protocols is a famous (but 100% fake) anti-Semitic text published by the Russian Czar's secret police in the early 1900s. It details a supposed meeting between Jewish elders that concerned plans of world domination. Notably, Adolf Hitler cited it in Mein Kampf. Taught as fact in German schools during the Nazi era, it is generally considered one of the primary justifications Hitler made for the Holocaust.

So, what would happen if this book had never been published by the Russians? I think it might reduce the ubiquity of the "The Jews Control Everything" conspiracy theory, for one.

I am extremely skeptical that butterflying away the Protocols would have made the early 20th c. any safer for Jews. The absence of the Protocols alone might not have prevented Hitler's rise to power. I do think that an absence of the Protocols would remove a crucial backbone to anti-Semitism. Even today the Protocols has a diverse range of followers, from white supremacists to Muslim radicals to Roman Catholic traditionalists. The absence of the Protocols might make it more difficult for hate groups to try to justify their hatred. Each group would have to concoct its own evil, rather than borrow from an evil meme. This might make it harder, in one respect, for anti-Semitism to organize and stay organized. However, there was certainly other anti-Semitic literature in this period that might well have taken the Protocol's place.
 
The Protocols is a famous (but 100% fake) anti-Semitic text published by the Russian Czar's secret police in the early 1900s. It details a supposed meeting between Jewish elders that concerned plans of world domination. Notably, Adolf Hitler cited it in Mein Kampf. Taught as fact in German schools during the Nazi era, it is generally considered one of the primary justifications Hitler made for the Holocaust.

So, what would happen if this book had never been published by the Russians? I think it might reduce the ubiquity of the "The Jews Control Everything" conspiracy theory, for one.

The world would be a much better place. :(
 
No difference at all, I say.:( Some people have to hate, and are quite able to make up their own justifications for it. If Protocols of Zion isn't published, something similar will be made up elsewhere.
 
Other bunch of nutbag anti-semites publish somthing similar. Thats about it...

There was no shortage of anti-Jewish tracts written by Catholics alone, never mind anyone else.
 

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Banned
Not much changes, although knock-on effects include a slightly lower production cost for the Model T, and a possible prevention of the Showa Era government's oddly pro-Jewish attitudes.
 
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