Benedict Waldeck was a left-leaning deputy in the Prussian

Kingdom of Prussia

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 National Assembly

National Assembly

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, and later in the Second Chamber. He was tried in Berlin

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 for his political activity in December 1849. Sir John Retcliffe

Sir John Retcliffe

Sir John Retcliffe was the pseudonym of the German writer Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche primarily remembered for his antisemitism and the extent to which his fiction indirectly contributed to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.-Life and work:Goedsche was born in Trachenberg, Silesia, then...

 was centrally involved in a forgery scandal to discredit Waldeck, and Retcliffe subsequently lost his government job for his criminal participation. He is an important figure in German constitutional history.

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• Sir John Retcliffe
  Sir John Retcliffe
  Sir John Retcliffe was the pseudonym of the German writer Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche primarily remembered for his antisemitism and the extent to which his fiction indirectly contributed to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.-Life and work:Goedsche was born in Trachenberg, Silesia, then...