The first mention of the Protocols appeared in Russian newspapers in 1902 and was first published in 1903.
At the time it was published, there were bigger antisemitic riots, and it’s creation only fueled the fire. Although it was proven to be fabricated both in 1921 and in 1923, at the beginning of 1933 it was brought into some German school systems and taught as fact. This further fueled antisemitic feelings there.
The Protocols themselves are supposed to be minutes from meetings held by a group of Jews who intended to take over the world and rule it in tyranny. However, the Protocols are plagiarized, stereotypical, and nonsensical.
Multiple sections plagiarized from Maurice Joly’s “The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu.”, even word for word occasionally. And honestly, I’m so incredibly tired of the stereotype that all Jews are bankers. It’s the stereotype that bothers me the most, but why, I could not tell you.