Protokolle der Weisen von Zion; Zeitungsberichte II

The file contains several newspaper clippings published between April till Mai 1935 in Switzerland and Germany. The newspaper cuttings and cartoons are regarding the Bern Trial specifically the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (Der Prozess um die "Zionistischen Protokolle"). 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, C. A. Loosli the expert appointed by the judge 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 published Informations about the trial differ obviously strongly in this two countries. The Newspapers in Switzerland spoke about the fictory of Jews in Bern regarding the statements of the experts and in Germany it was reported that the 'true' parts of Protocols, as Fleischhauer argued, were already republished and used for further research. 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. In adition reports have been published in Switzerland entitled 'Jews and Switzerland' were is was explained, that Jews always belonged to the country, even in the 13th century Jews and that the nation should not allow the anti-Semitic beliefs of the National Socialist Party enter into the country. Also advertisments for departments, stores, hotels and books have been published.