Protokolle der Weisen von Zion; Zeitungsberichte

The file contains several newspaper clippings published between the 29th of April till the 7th of Mai 1935 in Bern, Switzerland. The newspaper cuttings and cartoons are regarding the Bern Trial specifically about the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (Der Prozess um die "Zionistischen Protokolle", Fleischhauer und kein Ende). The newspaper clippings collected from thes days are particularly about the appointed experts Ulrich Fleischhauer and Arthur Baumgarten and their expert opinion on the Protocols. Baumgarten was the appointed expert of the plaintiffs and Fleischhauer, an anti-Semitic expert, appointed by the defands. While Baumgarten and C.A. Loosli declared the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a plagiarism and a forgery produced by helpers of the tsarist Russian Okhrana, Fleischhauer claimed that they were genuine but of uncertain authorship, possibly composed by the Jewish author. The informations given in the clippings show, that the propaganda machine and anti-Semitic newspapers in Germany used the Bern Trail and the Protocols for their own purposes, changed the facts or just reported the stories which were fitting into their scheme. Furthermore before Fleischhauer gave his expertise in the courtroom in Bern, German newspapers already quoted his speech and his statements. As the 'Berner Zeitung' reports: 'bad management of the Nazis'. Also published cartoons made the National-Socialist party look silly in its evidence and their press coverage in Germany.