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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an alleged secret document which was published and printed for the first time in 1903.

The alleged original manuscript has long since disappeared.

Plus, conflicting, and inconsistent, testimony and witness reports about it were presented at the Berne Trial in 1934 and 1935.

Nevertheless, it has been established that it was a fabrication created by the Tsar's secret police, the Okhrana.

Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

Nevertheless, it has been repeatedly reproduced, in typescript and printed form, by its often anonymous editors as an alleged authentic document taken or stolen from some vaguely identified Jewish and Masonic organization.

As such, it was presented to Russian Empire censors ( 1903, 1905, 1906, 1911 ) who passed it along for publication.

Similarly, it was presented to various government officials, military and diplomatic, in the United States and in Europe ( 1919 – 1920 ), in opposition to the Russian Revolution, and to influence the terms of the peace settlement which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.

Accordingly, this work, which now only exists in the world as a reproduction, has the major elements of a false document.

Since it is difficult to imagine a typesetter working without a manuscript, unless the typesetter was writing the document as it was printed, we must assume that a manuscript existed.

But since this original forged item has long since disappeared, the crimes of fraudulently and repeatedly submitting such a false document as authentic not only cannot be prosecuted, but cannot be studied by historians nor subjected to the rigorous requirements of forensics.