Infamous Books

Infamous Books

Many infamous books have been written that triggered great devastation and havoc . Here are some examples:

1240-1253: the Benedictine Monk Matthaeus  Parisiensis (Matthew Paris / died 1259) wrote the Chronica Majora in which he describes at length the enormous threat emanating from the Jews, who were regarded as incarnation of the Antichrist

1484:  Summis desiderantes affectibus (Desiring with supreme ardor) was a papal bull condemning witchcraft

1486: Hexenhammer (Hammer of the Witches / Malleus Maleficarum: was  a treatise on witchcraft and endorsed  extermination of witches (and heretics)

1543: Martin Luther expressed his hatred of (non-converted) Jews in the publication Von den Juden und ihren Lügen (On the Jews and their Lies), propagating some ‘solutions’ for this ‘problem’:

  • to burn down Jewish synagogues and schools and warn people against them
  • to refuse to let Jews own houses among Christians
  • to take away Jewish religious writings
  • to forbid rabbis from preaching
  • to offer no protection to Jews on travel roads
  • for usury to be prohibited and for all Jews, silver and gold to be removed, put aside for safekeeping, and given back to Jews who truly convert
  • to give young, strong Jews flail, axe, spade, and spindle, and let them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow

1903: One of the most prominent and devastating examples of anti-Semitic publications are The Protocols of the Elders of Zion / also called: The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion (first published in Russia 1903) – see next blog entry

1920’s: Henry Ford wrote many anti-Semitic articles, and most infamously The International Jew. This publication inspired Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg (Nazi theorist and ideologue), Julius Streicher (publisher of the newspaper Der Stürmer  (The Stormer / Attacker / Striker) from 1923 on.

1925-1926: Hitler: Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Hitler’s anti-Semitism heavily relied on The Protocols.


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