historical record
"The Protocols are in great part a clumsy plagiarism of Maurice Joly's 1864 satire 'Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu.'"
Source
Philip Graves (The Times) — 'A Literary Forgery' Exposing the Protocols
The Times of London, 'The Truth About the Protocols: A Literary Forgery' (Aug 16–18, 1921)
Author
Philip Graves / The Times of London
Date
1921
Credibility & evidentiary value

The original journalistic exposé proving the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' were plagiarized from an unrelated 1864 French satire. Corroborated by historians ever since; the forgery is established fact (later reaffirmed in a 1935 Swiss court ruling).

Citation · Chicago

Philip Graves, 'The Truth About the Protocols: A Literary Forgery,' The Times (London), August 16–18, 1921.

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