Incredible. A banal plagiarized forgery by the Okhrana becomes 'freedom of speech', because late 19th century Russia was such a bastion of free speech.

The irony is that no one serious took the Protocols seriously. Even Hitler himself, though I think at some point he tried to make some noises that they were genuine.

Being recognized as such, what is the likelihood that they persuaded people to vote for Hitler (when people didn't even vote for him because of his position on Jews).

Furthermore, while many Nazis owned Mein Kampf, almost no one ever read it - cause it's a rambling, unreadable book or so I hear. Maybe if more people had read it, they'd have been less naive about Hitler. Churchill and Stalin had read it, and they were two who made the least illusions about Hitler's true nature (and yes, I am of course aware of Stalin's gross misjudgments in 1941).

The only help that Mein Kampf gave Hitler was the steady income stream from royalties, but of course, if attacking Jews was disallowed, he could just excise those parts and still get the royalties. It would probably have made the book more appealing.

We live in the dumbest age in human history. Cavemen were smarter.