Jonak von Freyenwald: Papers re the trial of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Jonak von Freyenwald, born 1878 in Vienna; held various civil service posts until retirement in 1922. He worked for the Anti-semitic organisation <i>Weltdienst</i><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2"></a> <i></i>between 1934 and 1940 in Erfurt, then Frankfurt. Between 1934 and 1937 he worked as an academic assistant for the Swiss defendants and their lawyers in the Bern trial of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.</p><p>The original order has been retained. This collection of correspondence and papers relates to the infamous Bern trial of the distributors of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in particular to the appeal, which took place between 27 October and 1 November 1937, in which the original verdict, convicting the distributors of falsification and plagiarism, was overturned on a legal technicality, although the appellants were not compensated<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"></a>.</p><p> Open