In the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," I have never been able to see anything other than a fantastic manifestation of maniacal hatred against Jews, a sentiment I understand so little that it does not affect me at all, and I am not inclined to engage with it in any way. Your book shows me the immense effort of scholarly energy and meticulousness that was required to finally put an end to this legend. These lines were written by Thomas Mann in November 1926 to Binjamin Segel after reading his publication "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Critically Illuminated" with the optimistic subtitle "A Resolution." The Jewish-Galician journalist Segel (1866-1931) worked for nearly three years to expose the world's most famous conspiracy fantasy. With his enlightenment pamphlet from 1924, he was one of the pioneers of a K.