Switzerland Process “The Protocols of The Elders of Zion”, 1935 (b/w photo)

Ulrich Fleischhauer, head of the anti-Semitic “World Service” in Erfurt, centre, with cigarette, Theodor Fischer, right next to Fleischhauer, one of the main defendants in the Bern trial, Silvio Schnell, 2nd from left, and Hans Ruef, far right, defender of the defendants, leave the court building in Bern, Switzerland, in May 1935. 1934, a trial place in Bern against the Swiss editors of the so-called “Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion”, after the Bernese Jewish Community and the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) jointly filed a complaint in 1933. The protocols were issued as secret documents of a Jewish world conspiracy. In fact, however, it is a compilation of several fictional texts.