Theodor Fritsch was a German publisher and journalist. His antisemitic writings did much to influence popular German opinion against Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His writings also appeared under the pen names Thomas Frey, Fritz Thor, and Ferdinand Roderich-Stoltheim.
Theodor Fritsch about 1920
"A German Seven", montage of portraits of German antisemites c. 1880/1881. Centre: Otto Glagau, around him clockwise: Adolf König, Bernhard Förster, Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg, Theodor Fritsch, Paul Förster, and Otto Böckel.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy.
Cover of the first book edition of The Great Within the Minuscule and Antichrist, in which the Protocols appeared as an appendix
The Book of the Kahal (1869) by Jacob Brafman, in the Russian language original
The frontispiece of a 1912 edition using occult symbols
A 1934 edition by the Patriotic Publishing Company of Chicago
