FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for World War II
in Paris, who was an opponent of Sergey Witte, the Russian Minister of
Finance.When Witte took office in 1892, he began to modernize Russia by
doubling steel, iron, and coal production; and constructing railroads.
He was disliked by those who had their money tied up in agriculture.
He caused inflation by abandoning the gold standard in 1898 because
of an economic slump. The Protocols say that such economic
depressions are caused by the Elders to gain control of the money;
and that the gold standard has ruined every country that has adopted
it. Researchers say that the economic and financial data could have
been extracted from Joly’s book, and applied to Witte, in order to
present him as a tool of the Elders of Zion.So, Cyon allegedly forged and translated the Protocols, expanding
them as a satire on Witte. His writings resembled the style used in the
Protocols; and he was known to have used another French satire on a
dead statesman, by changing the names. In 1897, Gen. Pyotr Ivanovich
Rachkovsky, head of the Russian Secret Police in Paris, on
instructions from Witte, broke into Cyon’s villa at Territet, Switzerland,
to look for additional written attacks on Witte. It is believed that
Rachkovsky discovered the Protocols there, and used it for a dual
purpose. He could use it against the Jews, claiming it was part of a
Jewish conspiracy; and he could reveal that it was written by a Jew,
which Cyon was, thus destroying Cyon. It was kind of ironic, that the
Russian translation for Cyon’s name, ‘Tsion’, means ‘Zion.’In 1921, Count Alexandru du Chayla said that Nilus revealed to him in
1909 that the Protocols were fraudulent, and had been sent to him by
Gen. Rachkovsky.During the 1934 trial of two Swiss Nazis in Berne, brought by a group
of Jews who accused them of distributing the Protocols, the historian
Vladimir Burtsev and a professor, Sergey Svatikov, testified that
Rachkovsky and other Czarist officials had a hand in the fabrication of
the Protocols. In 1891, Rachkovsky sent a letter to the Police, and
announced his intentions to oppose the Jews. This was followed up by
a book that stated his views about the Jews, and how, as a result of
the French Revolution, they controlled Europe. It is quite possible that
he added to Cyon’s manuscript to produce the Protocols, and then