Declaring that they were emulating the “Elders of Zion Protocols”, a “propaganda verlag”,publishing concern,which was established solely for spreading anti-Semitic propaganda,today issued hundreds of thousands of copies of a pamphlet of the alleged protocols discovered at a “secret session of the Cabbalist Sanhedrin,held in 1761.This meeting was attended by representatives of the twelve Jewish tribes from all parts of the world to work out a plot for the Jews to conquer the world in 1941.”
The session,the pamphlet states,took place “midnight at the grave of Simon Ben Jehuda,amter of the Cabbala.” Punctually at midnight as the climes rang out ,the assembly was greeted by a voice from the grave which said, “be greeted you best men of Israel’s tribes.”
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