Fritsch openly credited the Protocols of Zion as training material for Nazi statecraft.

Evidence

Alexander Stein, Adolf Hitler, Schüler der “Weisen von Zion,” Karlsbad, 1936, was the first to analyze by philological comparison the ideological identity of the teachings of the Nazis with that of the “Elders of Zion.” See also R. M. Blank, Adolf Hitler et les “Protocoles des Sages de Sion,” 1938. The first to admit indebtedness to the teachings of the Protocols was Theodor Fritsch, the “grand old man” of German postwar antisemitism. He writes in the epilogue to his edition of the Protocols, 1924: “Our future statesmen and diplomats will have to learn from the oriental masters of villainy even the ABC of government, and for this purpose, the ‘Zionist Protocols’ offer an excellent preparatory schooling.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2635

Categorization

• XREF: Doctrine of the Elders of Zion as a stated source of Nazi ideology is a concrete data point for how a fabricated ‘Jewish conspiracy’ text became governing method — relevant to later Islamophobic conspiracy literature.