An Original Translation: Theodor Fritsch's Afterword to his last Edition of the Protocols of Zion
Theodor Fritsch was in many ways the greatest and most prolific of any anti-Semite who has every lived and has not been unjustly labelled the 'godfather' of German anti-Semitism. However his large corpus of work that spanned some fifty years worth of writing, research and correspondence has unfortunately remained almost totally untranslated into English and since 1945 has received little attention in spite of Fritsch's massive importance to the intellectual acceptance of anti-Semitism in the German-speaking world as well as being a major inspiration to the fledgling NSDAP of which he quickly became a member. Indeed one may remember that it was Fritsch who largely inspired Goebbels' particularly virulent anti-Semitism when the two met at the very beginning of Goebbels' and very end of Fritsch's respective careers as significant historical figures.
Fritsch's best-known contribution to the anti-Semitic corpus however is his central involvement in the transmission and propagation of the Protocols of Zion in Germany and Austria. Without Fritsch's campaign on behalf of the Protocols - a subject on which he and those associated with him wrote a great deal - it is unlikely that the Protocols would have been able to have had the influence they did, because it was Fritsch's 'Hammer Verlag' that kept them alive and fought back against the time of jewish abuse that was hurled against them.
Many of his arguments are now dated, but I think it is still important to lay before the world what Fritsch actually said and to this end I have translated his afterword to the 1933 edition of the 'Zionist Protocols'. (1) (2)
To wit:
'Afterword
To many people the 'Protocols' will appear as a psychological mystery. Blinded by the glare of the unusual light in which they are shown here many will be unable to distinguish much of their message in their everyday lives. Like a bad dream: it will pass many a mind by.
It is necessary to repeatedly read the text to discover that it is indeed an embarrassingly elaborate program aimed at the establishment of Jewish world domination and to discover in many aspects of public the existence of Jewish supremacy and the acts of those Jews which conform to the conspiracy.
As far as anyone can attentively recognize these 'Protocols' inform us that: within honourable peoples [of Europe] lives a hostile element, which seeks by every nefarious trick and vile deception to disturb the peaceful prosperity of the societies in which it resides. This activity is informed by the delusion of Jewish racial superiority. This delusion in turn relies on the imagination: a display of spirit and ability over all other nations by an exalted race that was destined by God to rule over the whole earth.
Selfless, honourable people who understand the nature of their manifest gifts put these innate qualities at in the service of the national community, work hard to excel in their chosen field(s) and win the trust of others allowing them to rise to positions of influence and thus straightforwardly and honestly achieve a dominant position in society. They would then find plenty of opportunity to manifest their community-orientated spirit, to express their creative abilities and show their truly charitable disposition. By such a medium are important people developed and are enabled to further enrich the national community with their innate gifts.
This way was not that of the Jews. Not open to fair competition with other equally or more qualified people: they sought to give effect to dominate by the underhanded and dishonourable methods of trickery and cunning. Keeping their plans secret they formed among themselves a conspiratorial organisations, which initially excluded all non-Jews from their community and nurtured an unmistakable hostility against all gentiles. This hostility was however carefully concealed and disguised by a seemingly harmless and pious nature. An open expression of the hostile attitude would have complicated and potentially compromised their objectives.
It wasn't by hard work and manifest courage that the Jew wanted to conquer the world, but rather by the use of devious cunning. In this no means fair or foul was considered beneath him. In order to paralyse the strength of the honourable man: the Jew undermined the economic, social and moral order. He deliberately fostered all evil desires and inclinations among non-Jews: hatred, jealousy, rebellion, licentiousness, debauchery and vices of every description. The ruling classes the Jew wore down by preying on their weaknesses and mistakes. However we need not further enumerate the many villainies by which the state and our society have been undermined and which have described in the 'Protocols' with such cynicism.
To understand this system of ruthless deception it is necessary to delve a little deeper into the Jewish nature. Eagle-eyed researchers have for more than fifty years uncovering important information about Judaism, but the mass of the population - and even the majority of well-educated people - have remained steadfastly ignorant these valuable revelations. The Jews are still for the majority of people still as Heinrich Heine described them 'a real mystery.'
Therefore, it seems necessary for me to give another short sketch of the character of the Jewish nature especially in relation to their strange sense of morality and philosophy of life.
The Jews consider themselves - as every child knows from reading the Bible - the 'chosen people' and by that title the special favourites of God. God has they think granted special privileges in the world and promised them even more that is to come. Their conception of God are certainly of a peculiar kind for the Jewish God has eyes only for this peculiar people and he showers on them all his love and favours. Yes: he has even allowed the Jews to commit all kinds of injustice against other nations and the concomitant morality that he teaches them can be summarized in the words: Everything that is of benefit to the Jews is allowed and indeed sanctified. The Jewish God even helps his people in the fraud and the destruction of non-Jews. When helping the Jews escape from Egypt: Yahweh-Jehovah councils them to steal all the silver and golden vessels from Egyptians.
The Jewish God has a special hatred for and revengeful thirst against all non-Jews and he recommends exterminating them and stealing all their wealth.
It is evident that this strange misanthropic, and fire-breathing 'God' is nothing in common with the 'Heavenly Father' of Christianity, which is full of gentleness and kindness toward all people.
In the reasoning behind of these strange ideas about God and the chosen nature of the Jews: the Rabbis come to some very strange conclusions in their Talmudic writings. They teach that the Jews are the only real humans and that God created the world only for them. The non-Jews are regarded as being equivalent to the animals and their only reason for existence is to serve the Jews. Yahweh gave the Jews the right to all the treasures of the world; which the non-Jews have unjustly accumulated, because everything actually belongs to them as the 'chosen nation' of Yahweh. The Jew shall have the right to bring all that is owned by foreigners [non-Jews] into his hands. He commits no wrong in doing so, because he only takes back what already belongs to him as Jew. The Rabbis however advise the Jew to proceed with caution and care to ensure that non-Jews do not notice what he is doing and make sure that the good reputation of the Jews will not be in any way tarnished.
Through this reasoning the Rabbis allow any fraud and crime against the non-Jews (Goyim or Akum) while preserving their sage-like appearance and good reputation.
The Shulchan Aruch says: 'The possession of non-Jews (Akum) is as unclaimed property, and who comes first has the advantage.' And clarifies itself with the sentence: 'The best of the Akum are those who are dead!'
The Jews have not only a differing view on human morality: they are also differ in their legal and political principles. The Talmud is not only a work of religious law, but also a legal code and a political constitution. Are the Jews by virtue of their special law to this day a state within state despite their dispersion over many different lands? And is this Jewish law so tightly bound on the Jews that he can never truly be a sincere member of a non-Jewish state?
The Jew can recognize only a state with a Jewish government. So must the Jew be a revolutionary in non-Jewish state and seeks to turn it into a Jewish state with the help of non-Jewish revolutionaries: in essence he will not rest till the non-Jewish authorities are eliminated. Toleration is not enough for the Jew as what he demands is that the non-Jews give him the right to rule.
The Jews are well aware of the state and its hostility towards their actions hence they prescribe the death penalty to those who reveal their teachings to the Gentiles and especially those educated in the ways of the Talmud. Thus we should appreciate the credibility of statements that are made by those who come forward about what the Talmud teaches.
These facts must be known in order to truly understand the horrors of the 'Zionist Protocols'.
One might ask how it is possible that non-Jews down the centuries have been so completely enthralled by the Jewish deception. This should not be taken as evidence for a lower mental capacity among non-Jews precisely because had they recognised that they had been cheated and tricked by the Jews then they would have been derided by others who were still en hoc to the Jews. It is little wonder then that the Jews see us as a 'flock of sheep' and speak of the 'animal mind of the goyim.'
We should also realise that this Jewish fraud has also been delicately woven. The Jew began where the human mind is at its deepest and most vulnerable: in religion. We learned from our youth look up to the Jews as a sublime and 'holy people.' The Bible's teaching aroused in us the idea that every other culture and religion had descended from the Jews. It introduced us to the idea of the Jews as agents of God, whom could alone bring salvation to the people. This was the most shameless fraud that was perpetrated on the honest masses and was committed under the guise of religion. This religious delusion prevented us from discerning the true nature of the Jew. From this curtailing of critical thought; and in some minds of all reason and morality, most people cannot make sense of what is truly occurring all around them.
The Bible's teachings had given them rose-tinted glasses, which prevent them; at least in respect to the nature of the Jews, from seeing things as they really were. Although the greatest minds of every age have raised their voices and warned of the treacherous enemies, but the fact that these warnings had been raised was carefully concealed from the mass of the people. The few far-sighted individuals of the last fifty years who watched the activities of the Jews and sounded warnings afresh were subjected to a large amount of public ridicule and scorn.
The press has since that time been mainly in the hands of the Hebrews and the non-educated masses were deceived and intoxicated with nonsensical ideas like freedom, progress, humanity and tolerance. So much so that every outspoken word against Judah was branded a 'throwback to the days of blackest reaction.' In 1860 one of the finest minds of Germany wrote; under the name H. Naudh (Heinrich Nordmann), a scholarly book entitled 'The Jews and the German Government', which elegantly and masterfully probed every side of the Jewish Question, but our ruling class: statesmen, politicians and scholars have done anything with that information.
Of course, the Hebrews even then had all the influential personalities surrounded by themselves and their agents that no honest man was able to get to or influence them in any way. All messages to those in influence had to pass through the checkpoints of this system of Jewish censorship. In this way all the rulers and the ruling classes were left in an appalling state of ignorance of the most important questions of the moment. The artificial creation of the different aspects of control was a stunning success and was performed in exactly the same manner which the 'Protocols' openly boast of.
When we come to the reign of Wilhelm II: the entire corps German government officials and diplomatic officials not a single good mind was present any longer. The few that showed talent were moved; by the Wise Men of Zion, from public office to better salaried places in the large corporations and banks.
Our future politicians and diplomats will have to go to these rogues from the Orient to be schooled in the doctrine; but in fact to learn the basics, of the art of government. And to provide this the 'Zionist Protocols' are an excellent teaching tool. The statesman must know above all the means by the which revolutionaries use to undermine the national community and the state. Only then can he take the necessary countermeasures to prevent the success of the Jews. Otherwise: he will fall prey to their machinations.
Given these facts: the shameless man will be inclined to grant the Jews a real mental superiority. He forgets that the Hebrews emerged from a sect of thieves and even today seek to improve their condition by theft; though in a more refined form, with their very existence founded always on the ridicule and reversal of all morality. Their Talmudic teachings are simply put a mockery of morality. They are born fraudsters and it therefore common for less honourable people to make the most unsparing use of these jewish insights: unaffected as they are by any scruples of conscience. The Jews have developed a pettifogging virtuosity which falsely links the material benefit of an something directly to whether it is moral or immoral. Their first principle is 'Anything that benefits the people of Judah is moral and holy', which is a doctrine that Friedrich Nietzsche confessed the greatest admiration for. He called it 'the grand style in morality.' Healthier people call it criminality.
In fact what our [Jewish] 'ruling class' understands of the art of manipulating the emotional wiles of the mob and directing the public mind is evident on the subject of the railways, which were beneficial to the prosperity of the whole.
Just read the relevant passages of the Protocols again and recall how unlikely it is that an Aryan mind could entertain such thoughts. As if heads with such insight were in important positions: they would have seen through Judaism much earlier and the Jews would never been able to sneak into their dominant position. The few individuals who suspected something of these events were publicly attacked in the press as 'fanatical Jew-haters'.
We should note that an enormous amount of wisdom lies hidden in this 'Zionist Protocols' but this wisdom is degraded by the purpose that it has been harnessed. If those minds which could contrive such things did not pursue anti-social special interests: then they would almost certainly be perceptive men with a great deal of psychological insight who would be leaders of a coup d'etat. In their sharp insights into the social and intellectual processes active in the body of the people: they have developed those talents which allow them to move aside and render innocuous the former ruling classes. The old ruling class believed they would prevail without making any mental effort to do so. They assumed that their right to rule was a matter of course, but it was just an outdated legacy and were not aware that the right to rule has to be constantly re-earned and defended. If you become lazy and they abandoned the evolving technologies and institutions to the zealous corrupters of the people who took over where they had left off.
The old aristocrats didn't comprehend how they were being abused and fooled by these crafty fraudsters. To the eyes of the thief and the burglar: the clumsy accounting of the 'rulers' to the people was simply a farce directed by them to increase their own power in the long-term. The great and good of today should learn from the 'Protocols' about the nature of the shameful role that they played.
In any case: to anyone wishing to study political science the 'Protocols' must be the subject of serious study. Here we can learn how to set up an authoritarian regime based on the worthlessness and the destruction of the spirit of the people. In the Protocols you can learn about how the Jews are going to treat you if they what they envision is to come to pass.
When we see the phrase: 'True freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honourably and strictly observes all the laws of social life.' Then we can see that the Protocols are absolutely right! Now, it is of the Hebrews, who rejects his Talmudic law by any honest community with others and thus was born the destroyer of community life.
The existence of the 'Zionist Protocols' as a work program for the secret society is a politically clear-sighted and unshakable fact. It is our duty to anticipate their aims and goals. The state must defend itself against this secretive clan, which in assumed disguise of harmlessness creeps into all positions of authority in order to use them to implement nefarious policies which directly against the best interests of the state. We must finally recognize the warning raised by sharp-eyed people as early as 1797: in that in Judaism we are dealing with a virtual state, which engages in constant warfare against all other states. We must also concede the truth of the warning written in 1886. 'The way the Jews on the Earth is a campaign for the world domination, under the cover of a false flag while in the midst of their enemies, but yet ready at any moment to assault and steal from them.'
Where have our princes and statesmen had their heads when they dismissed and ignored of all these warnings? We must now consider the practical application of the new information embodied in the 'Zionist Protocols'.
What use are all well-meaning declarations and treaties all with the goal of establishing world peace as long as the fires of discord between the nations are so obvious. Behind the nations and their governments is a hidden power that is tirelessly stoking the internal and external strife between the parties in conflict and which leads to new conflicts and wars. This is all betrayed in the 'Zionist Protocols'.
But the psychological aspect of this new information is the most important and valuable.
It is true that the Jews dominate today not only by virtue of their money power and all the clever machinations; which are portrayed in the 'Protocols', but also by the force of a relentless will in contrast to the weak will-power of the non-Jewish peoples which is the cause of much of their current condition. The spirit of the Gentiles has been paralysed mostly due to the fact that they are not aware of the connections between today's events and the authors of them. Those who fumble around helplessly in the dark and are attacked by invisible enemies cannot develop courage and fight back successfully. The recognition of the enemy and his weapons is the first prerequisite for a successful defense. And this is the use to which we can put the 'Protocols' Their distribution in all social classes and religious groups of our nation is the first condition of our recovery and liberation from Jewish domination.
Whether the non-Jewish peoples have mental stength enough to hake off the Jewish vampire remains to be seen. Of course: the spiritual blood that the Jewish monster have been sucked out of the non-Jewish peoples becomes a part of their will and their life force meaning that as the Gentiles become weaker the Jews become stronger. Nevertheless: the clear recognition of our situation will forge new strength in us.
To once again raise the question of authenticity of the 'Zionist Protocols':
I cannot imagine an Aryan head capable of creating such a shamelessly consistent system of mischievous malice. It may be added that during the translation of the 'Protocols' into other languages: the occasionally quite convoluted phraseology on the part of the translator; perhaps unconsciously interpolated, has been subject to some intensification and exaggeration, but the authenticity of the basic ideas is not in doubt. So well do the 'Protocols' anticipate events that two decades ago the public had not yet realised; for example, the jewish origin of Freemasonry, but yet the 'Protocols' anticipates this fact which has now been established. You should also remember that throughout the Protocols numerous mentions of the 'World War' are made when the 'Protocols' were written in the 1897 or 1901!
And what reason could a non-Jew have had to take the trouble to prepare a detailed plan for the continuous plundering and subjugation of the non-Jewish peoples? If a non-Jewish mind was actually capable of concocting such wily and rascally plans then why do they not dominate international finance? The whole system of thought upon which these statements are based is to the Aryan mind so alien that it seems incomprehensible to many. It is only perverse minds trained in the study of the Talmud that could consciously entertain such thoughts. The English translator Marsden stated for example that he had to work only an hour a day on his translation of the 'Protocols', because their unnatural and dishonest reasoning made him feel quite ill.
It is difficult to imagine anyone with so sharp an eye for human frailties and abilities, with such a pragmatic and relentless appreciation and mastery of all elements of political power and influence who believes the Jews might perhaps be the appointed arm of the nation's destiny other than the Jews themselves. The Jew thinks that you should experiment and entrust the supreme authority to the Hebrews. The Jew would however once in official power not let go of his fateful dominance.
Care would be taken; as outlined in the 'Protocols', to brutally suppress of any public criticism of conditions in the Jewish State.
The requirement that everything is to be regarded as the property of the state and its Jewish king is hard to imagine to a non-Jewish mind. Likewise; the radical transformation of the financial system, as described in the Protocols, bears the distinct marks of Jewish resourcefulness and experience.
In the 'Protocols' the concealment of the Jewish hand in the proposals on the co-opting of the legal profession and the taxation of the rich are quite logical. What would cause a non-Jew; seeking to discredit the Hebrews, to impute such sensible measures to them?
No: the Zionist Protocols are quite true and whoever wants to see absolute truth in the psychological and political instinct or wishes to disclose that truth will find it in the 'Protocols'. The inexorable consequences, as they are outlined in the Protocols on the treatment of the judicial system are hardly likely to have sprung from non-Jewish heads These include the Jewish ruthlessness and fanaticism. German thought is far too modest, too dominated by the concepts of equality and justice to be capable of the cruel consequences of such a plan. That this is the case shows clearly the devilish nature of the Jews.
Further would a non-Jewish brain have come up with the idea of giving Jewish activities such a bright halo as was done in the Protocols? Who would have it occurred to that the Jews would come up to whitewash their actions and plans in such a way?
Which non-Jew could so accurately predict the future Jewish sovereignty and glorify in such and sing the praises of a king from the House of David as the Protocols does?
No: the 'Protocols' are real! In every part they ooze a Talmudic character and outlook on life, which is the true stamp of genuine Jewish worthlessness.
The 'Protocols' should be regarded as fully authenticated evidence for danger that emanates from the Jews and which targets non-Jews.
Who after reading the 'Protocols' is still in serious doubt about their authenticity?
Even if we assume that the 'Protocols' had not emerged from Jewish hands: they are still a descriptive masterpiece of Jewish ideas and plans. If this was so they could only have been created by an ingenious mind, which had looked into the deepest chasms of the Jewish soul. Yes: the author could even be called a prophet, because he managed to predict numerous events decades before they occurred and identified them as the intentions and plans of world Jewry. This is amazing precisely because things have played out in the last twenty years exactly as the 'Protocols' described.
When asked Henry Ford what proofs he possessed for the authenticity of the Protocols, he said: 'Only one: they fit current events seamlessly.'
But has it now reached the point that where we; an age-old people, have to get lessons on how to set up a state that it rational and dominates? We need to learn from these Jewish fraudsters and create a government that ruthlessly suppresses its enemies.
Those men who want to take control of the future destiny of the people into their hands will have to remember to create a similarly clear program as given in the 'Protocols'. One could perhaps call it the 'Aryan Counter Protocols'. It would have to have the same relentless consistency, which in the case of 'Protocols' justified deceit and crime, to justify the protection of the honourable man and the defense of civilization and reason against their many enemies.
But one thing is undeniable from studying the 'Protocols' in that Judaism may no longer be tolerated among us! It is the honourable duty of civilized nations to eliminate this mangy cur which by its very presence permeates and pollutes everything and which poisons the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere in which we have to try breath.
The Jew is a born forger, a spy and a traitor: he is the Wandering Jew of legend. Where freedom is granted to him: he spreads seemingly random confusion and destruction by his unfettered presence, but this made even worse by the conspiratorial practices that are described in the 'Protocols'.
It would be wrong to put all the blame for our plight to the Jews. We always want to admit that our own weaknesses and mistakes have contributed much to our decline: our indifference and indolence in spiritual terms as well as our lack of resolve and selectiveness in moral matters. Certainly we need to start the improve in the basic elements of our existence through strict discipline and order in all areas, by breaking away from materialism, by the establishing new ideals and by striving to be better in ourselves. All this is only possible if the immoral and materialistic influences; emanating today from the infection that is Judaism, are eliminated.
One cannot fight the plague unless one can move freely in the land of its victims. The 'Protocols' are useful thus to prove that this infection is not just random, but consciously cultivated. The Jews spread corruption and moral decadence, because they are tools to place the Jews in a position of unprecedented power. The Jew wants a dull, mixed and subservient human race so he can enslave it undisturbed. They seek to violate the roots of everything that makes up the self-sovereignty and dignity of man and which can lift it to purer heights: in other words to eliminate the divine spark in man. Under Jewish tyranny mankind would degenerate into a mindless herd of slaves whom pay; in their compulsory labour, for the decadent feasts of the Jewish tyrants. The mighty Soviet Jews have already provided the evidence about just how deadly serious they are about the destruction and enslavement of the goyim.
The Jew has a mission in the world: the mission of vermin in nature. It increases where there is dirt and laziness and drives us; by his animal tortures, into activity and cleanliness.
We must clean the world around us and there his place no more for the Jews among us!
With the elimination of Judaism many of the evils from which the civilised nations of the world suffers from would simply disappear.
The cleansing has to begin with the raising of our spirits. The Jews spread evil, confusion, greed and stupidity around us. The stupefied are all caught in their net and they; brutalized by the Jews, become a helpers. Let the people see; especially the poor workers and day labourers who the Jews have blinded, that a bridge can be built by which these evils can be remedied.
We have an inexhaustible arsenal of powerful spiritual weapons against the insidious enemy of mankind.
The great minds from across the ages are on our side. That this is withheld from the people is one of the most villainous tricks of Jewish propagandists.
Hurry to spread the truth, while the power of the great deceiver is still growing and before; as previously planned, all anti-jewish literature is suppressed and anti-jewish criticism is held to be a crime against humanity!
Theodor Fritsch,
February 1924, Leipzig
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(1) I have frequently altered Fritsch's literal text in order to preserve his meaning for an English speaking audience as I feel this is the best way to read him and also prevent the reader becoming hung up on oddities of expression. I have also eliminated some passages which are both difficult to translate; even figuratively, without losing the reader (as Fritsch was keen on nuance that would mean explaining aspects of German nationalist thought from the late 20th century in order to make any sense).
(2) My translation of the Preface can be found at the following address: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/an-original-translation-theodor-fritschs