21. Taxil Diary 13th April 1897 1884 Simonini meets Taxil
22. The Devil in the Nineteenth Century Diary 14th April 1897 1884–1896 Taxil against the Masons
23. Twelve Years Well Spent Diary 15th and 16th April 1897 1884–1896 The same years, seen by Simonini (during this time Simonini meets the psychiatrists Chez Magny, as described in chapter 3)
24. A Night Mass Diary 17th April 1897 (which ends at dawn, 18th April) 1896–1897 Collapse of the Taxil venture, 21st March 1897; black mass
25. Sorting Matters Out Diary 18th and 19th April 1897 1897 Simonini understands and eliminates Dalla Piccola
26. The Final Solution Diary 10th November 1898 1898 The final solution
27. Diary Cut Short Diary 20th December 1898 1898 Preparation for the bomb attack
First edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which appeared in The Great Within the Small by Sergei Nilus.
LATER EVENTS
1905 The Great Within the Small, by Sergei Nilus, appears in Russia, with the following introduction: «A personal friend, now dead, gave me a manuscript that, with unusual perfection and clarity, describes the course and development of a sinister world conspiracy…This document came into my hands around four years ago along with the absolute guarantee that it is the genuine translation of (original) documents stolen by a woman from one of the most powerful leaders and highest initiates of Freemasonry…The theft was carried out at the end of a secret assembly of ‘Initiates’ in France—a country that is the nest of the ‘Jewish Masonic Conspiracy.’ I venture to reveal this manuscript, for those who wish to see and listen, under the title of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.» The Protocols is immediately translated into many languages.
1921 The Times of London finds similarities between the Protocols and Joly’s book and denounces the Protocols as false, but it continues to be published as genuine.
1925 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (I, 11): «How much the whole existence of this people is based on a permanent falsehood is apparent in the famous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Every week the Frankfurter Zeitung whines that they are based on a forgery: and here lies the best proof that they are genuine…When this book becomes the common heritage of all people, the Jewish peril can then be considered as stamped out.»
1939 In L’Apocalypse de notre temps, Henri Rollin writes: «[The Protocols] can be regarded as the most widely circulated work in the world after the Bible.»
Illustration Credits
p. 125: Victory at Calatafimi, 1860 © Mary Evans Picture Library.
p. 163: Honoré Daumier, Un jour où l’on ne paye pas (Members of the Public at the Salon, 10, for Le Charivari), 1852 © Bibliothèque Nationale deFrance.
p. 347: Honoré Daumier, Et dire qu’il y a des personnes qui boivent de l’eau dans un pays qui produit du bon vin comme celui–ci! (Croquis parisiens for Le journal amusant), 1864 © Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
p. 370: The Traitor: The Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus from the cover of Le Petit Journal, January 13, 1895, engraving by Henri Meyer, Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.
All other illustrations are from the author’s collection.
