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1* FandomVIP: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Henry Ford ([[OldShame until he denounced his previous stance]]), UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi, and UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden among others.
2* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Developed a large following in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Germany]] and [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan the United States]] after UsefulNotes/RedOctober, and in the Muslim World after the creation of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}.
3* MisaimedFandom: Lacking nearly two millennia of coexistence and religious villainization of Jews, the Japanese concluded from the ''Protocols'' that wealthy and influential Jews sound like very useful, powerful allies to have on one's side, and helped them migrate to Japanese-occupied China. They were quite annoyed to find out this wasn't the case, but they [[PetTheDog allowed the Jews to stay.]] Anti-Semitic slurs nevertheless filtered into Japanese social spaces widely even as late as the 1990s, as portrayed in ''Series/TokyoVice''.
4* OlderThanTheyThink: As often happens with [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]], the ''Protocols'' are largely plagiarized from an earlier version attacking [[{{applicability}} a different target]]. In this case, ''Dialogue in Hell Between [[Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli Machiavelli]] and Montesquieu'' (1864) by Maurice Joly, in which Machiavelli is not Jewish but a thinly-disguised [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed expy]] of Napoleon III who defends authoritarianism and wants to TakeOverTheWorld. More plain antisemitic material was added from the chapter "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel" in Hermann Goedsche's novel ''Biarritz'' (1868), which circulated in late 19th century European conservative circles as a supposed true account.

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