It seems likely Adolf Hitler first became aware of the '' Protocols '' after hearing about it from ethnic German white émigrés , such as Alfred Rosenberg and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter . Hitler refers to the '' Protocols '' in '' Mein Kampf '' : The '' Protocols '' also became a part of the Nazi propaganda effort to justify persecution of the Jews . In '' The Holocaust : The Destruction of European Jewry 1933 – 1945 '' , Nora Levin states that " Hitler used the Protocols as a manual in his war to exterminate the Jews " : Hitler endorsed the '' Protocols '' in his speeches from August 1921 on , and it was studied in German classrooms after the Nazis came to power . " Distillations of the text appeared in German classrooms , indoctrinated the Hitler Youth , and invaded the USSR along with German soldiers . " Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels proclaimed : " The Zionist Protocols are as up-to-date today as they were the day they were first published . " In contrast to Hitler , Nazi leader Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky admitted : Richard S. Levy criticizes the claim that the '' Protocols '' had a large effect on Hitler 's thinking , writing that it is based mostly on suspect testimony and lacks hard evidence
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