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Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

Satire on despotism by Maurice Joly (1864). It never mentions Jews. The Protocols plagiarised large parts of it.

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Scholarship & press 1 2
The Protocols plagiarised this satire in large part, as The Times showed in 1921. The satire never mentions Jews.

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The text that stoked modern antisemitism, JSTOR Daily. Scholarship & press
Written by Maurice Joly, the book had pitted liberalism against despotism—never mentioning Jews.
In 1921, the London Times outed the work as a plagiarism of an 1864 French political satire, Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. Written by Maurice Joly, the book had pitted liberalism against despotism—never mentioning Jews.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Key Dates, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
The Times (London) reveals that the Protocols is copied in large part from a French political satire: Maurice Joly's Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864). There is no mention of Jews in Dialogue in Hell.

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