'A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' opened in the Gonda Education Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2006. Photograph »
The Secrets of the Wise Men of Zion is the first documented version of the Protocols published outside of Russia. Published in Charlottenburg, Germany, 1920. Photograph »
Like many editions of the Protocols published in the 1920s, this French-language version charges that Jews are a foreign and dangerous influence. Published in Paris, 1920. Photograph »
Published in London, 1920. Photograph »
The International Jew, based largely on the Protocols, sold more than 500,000 copies and was translated into at least 16 languages. Published in Dearborn, Mich., 1920. Photograph »
By 1922, The International Jew was already in its 21st printing in Germany. Published in Leipzig, 1922. Photograph »
New York Herald reporter Herman Bernstein declared the Protocols “a cruel and terrible lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people.” Published in New York, 1921, reprinted 1928. Photograph »
Alfred Rosenberg's 1923 commentary on the Protocols (this copy is the fourth edition) reinforced Nazi anti-Jewish ideology. Published in Munich, 1933. Photograph »
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia regularly presented copies of this edition of the Protocols to state visitors during the early 1970s. Published in Karachi, Pakistan, 1969. Courtesy of Hassan Mneimneh. Photograph »
This Arabic translation of the Protocols by Ajaj Nuwayid also has appeared on a Web site sponsored by the Palestinian State Information Service. Published in Beirut, Lebanon, 1996 Photograph »
This 2005 Syrian edition of the Protocols claims that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were orchestrated by a Zionist conspiracy. The final chapter predicts the eventual destruction of the State of Israel. Published in Damascus, Syria, 2005. Gift of the Embassy of Israel. Photograph »
The Museum's exhibition demonstrates how the Nazis used the 'Protocols' to spread hatred of Jews. Photograph »
