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TIMEBASE 1922

1922 Henry Ford publishes a collection of antisemitic articles from the Dearborn Independent, many based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in a book entitled The International Jew: The World's Foresmost Problem. (Morais; Segel/Levy)

(Note: Half a million copies of the book were put into circulation in America and it was translated into German, Russian and Spanish. The International Jew probably did more than any other work to make the Protocols world-famous.) (Cohn)

1922 January 22 Pope Benedict XV dies.

1922 February Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) holds its first large rally in Vienna. Adolf Hitler is one of the main speakers. (Forgotten Nazis)

1922 February The United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy sign the Five Power Naval Armaments Treaty, which is hailed as the most successful disarmament pact in history. It provides for a 10-year hiatus in building warships of more than 10,000 tons and establishes a ratio of these ships each signatory could have.

1922 April 6 The Soviet delegation headed by Grigori Chicherin arrives in Genoa for a meeting with British, French, American Italian and German delegations.

1922 April 8 General Georg A.S. von Falkenhayn, former chief of the German general staff dies.

1922 April 10 The Genoa Conference begins.

1922 April 15 Secret negotiations between the German and Soviet delegations begin at 2AM. (Sturdza)

1922 April 16 Surprise conclusion of the Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and the Soviet Union.

1922 W.A. Harriman & Co. opens its European headquarters in Berlin with the aid of the Hamburg-based M.M. Warburg & Co. Government investigators later said it was during this time that Harriman first became acquainted with the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen. Harriman subsequently agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen (Union Banking Corporation) in New York City. The following year, Thyssen would become one of Hitler's largest financial backers.

1922 May 15 The German-Polish Convention is signed. Upper Silesia is returned to Germany and the minority rights of its Jews are guaranteed. (Atlas)

1922 May 19 The Genoa Conference collapses due to France's insistence that the Bolsheviks recognize and assume Russia's prewar debt.

1922 June Adolf Hitler once again is one of the main speakers at a meeting of Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) in Vienna.

1922 June 24 German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, 55, is murdered by antisemitic German nationalists in Berlin.

1922 August Grigorij Bostunic emigrates to Germany and in 1924 changes his name to Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch.

1922 August 16 Hitler addresses a mass meeting at Konigsplatz in Munich.

1922 August 22 Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is killed in an ambush.

1922 August 29 Cardinal Michael Faulhaber tells a large gathering of Catholics in Munich that the revolution of November 9, 1918 was a case of "perjury and high treason." (Lewy)

1922 September Greece's defeat by Turkey forces in Anatolia forces Constantine I to abdicate as king of Greece. Constantine is succeeded by George II.

1922 October 15 King Ferdinand and Queen Marie are coronated at Alba Iula, Romania.

1922 A deadlocked Vatican conclave chooses Achille Ratti as pope (Pope Pius XI) on the eve of Mussolini's March on Rome. Facing a choice between the right and the left, the Vatican decides that fascism seems the lesser of two evils.

1922 October 28 After the Fascists march on Rome, Benito Mussolini secures a mandate from King Victor Emmanuel III to form a coalition government.

1922 October 30 King Victor Emmanuel III names Benito Mussolini prime minister.

1922 November English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1922 Winter Japanese troops are finally driven from the Russian Far East and Vladivostok is retaken. (Polyakov)

1922 December Restrictions are imposed on the percentage of Jewish students allowed at Cluj University in Romania Other universities at Jassy, Bucharest and Czernowitz soon restrict Jewish attendance, and Jewish students are attacked. (Atlas)

1922 Detlef Schmude, one of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfel's most ardent supporters in Germany and the Prior of Hollenberg begins publishing a second Ostara series. The first issue "Die Ostara und das Reich der Blonden" reiterates the "Ario-Christian" canon with numerous quotes from Lanz: "racial history is the key to the understanding of politics," and "all ugliness and evil stems from interbreeding." (Roots)

1922 Karl von Habsburg, the deposed emperor of Austria,dies in exile.

1922 Zinoviev allies himself with Stalin and Lev Kamenev against Trotsky but disagrees ideologically with Stalin and is soon politically outflanked.

1922 Lenin renames the Cheka to soften its image. It now becomes the GPU (General Political Administration).

1922 Stalin becomes general secretary of the party's Central Committee. He now controls appointments, set agendas, and transfers thousands of party officials from post to post at will.

1922 Lenin writes a secret letter to Stalin, designating Armand Hammer as their official "path" to the resources of American capitalism. Hammer, the son of a Russian immigrant and founder of the American Communist Party, first found riches and notoriety as a businessman in the fledgling Soviet Union, where he used his operations to help launder money for the communist government. (Epstein)

1922 Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for his civil disobedience in India.

1922 Joseph Goebbels joins the Nazi Party, while trying to break into Journalism and the literary world.

1922 Between 1922 and 1933, there are 200 instances of grave desecrations in Jewish cemeteries at Nuremberg alone. (Atlas)

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