FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for World War II
stole the document and sold it for 2,500 francs to Justine Glinka, the
daughter of a Russian General. She in turn gave the French document,
and a Russian translation to Gen. Orgevskii in St. Petersburg, who
gave it to his superior, Gen. Cherevin, who filed it. Glinka was later
arrested, returned to Russia, and exiled to her estate in Orel; while
Schorst was killed in Egypt. It had also been reported that Glinka had
given a copy to Alexis Sukhotin, a law enforcement official in Orel, who
then showed them to two friends, Stepanov, and Professor Sergei
Nilus, a religious mystic.Nilus showed them to the Czar in 1903, who believed them to be
fraudulent, and ordered that all copies were to be destroyed. After
Nilus was banned from the Court, it is believed that he may have
altered the text to be more intense then they originally were. However,
as far as the mysterious references to the “representatives of Sion, of
the 33rd degree,” he would not have any idea what this meant, and
probably would not have altered this and any other in-kind references.The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion first appeared, in a
shortened form, in an August, 1903 edition of the Kishinev newspaper,
in the Ukraine; then in 1905, in the appendix of the third edition of a
book by Nilus called The Great in the Small, which was about the
coming of the Antichrist. Nilus said that the Protocols were translated
from the French text of a speech made to 300 influential Jews. A
prostitute allegedly stole the document from a leading Jew. A copy
was received by the British Museum in London, in August, 1906, where
it was translated by English journalist Victor Marsden, who published
it in 1921. Marsden said that he couldn’t work on the translation for
more than an hour at a time, because of the evil he felt while reading it.
In 1917, Nilus revised and expanded his book, which he called, He is
Near, At the Door: Here Comes the Antichrist and the Reign of the
Devil on Earth. Nilus wrote: “These Protocols are nothing else than a
strategic plan for the conquest of the world ... presented to the Council
of the Elders by ... Theodor Herzl, at the time of the first Zionist
Congress (held by the World Zionist Organization in 1897, at Basel,
Switzerland).” However, in his 1905 edition, he said that the Protocols
had been given in 1902-03. In fact, with each subsequent edition that
appeared in different countries, the origin of the document was
different.