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Alexandre du Chayla

Alexandre du Chayla

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Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla (25 March 1885 – 1945) was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy. He is chiefly remembered for giving crucial evidence and/or testimony for the prosecution at the Berne Trial in 1935 against the notorious Protocols of Zion.

Du Chayla had been a journalist at the time of the 1913 blood-libel trial of Mendel Beilis and had written in support of the accusation.[1] At Berne he insisted on payment of 4,000 Swiss francs for his testimony, which the plaintiffs found difficulty raising.[1] Michael Hagemeister wrote that du Chayla's testimony was full of factual errors and inconsistencies, but unfortunately still taints the historiography of the Protocols.[1]


References

  1. Michael Hagemeister (2022). The Perennial Conspiracy Theory. London and New York: Routledge. p. 25.
  • Norman Cohn (1967). Warrant for Genocide. London: Serif. pp. 93, 94–5, 97 et seq., 105, 128, 244. ISBN 1897959257.

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