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In Germany in the 1860s Jews and Freemasons began to be identified as twin agencies responsible for undermining traditional society. This combined criticism of the two groups was transplanted to France, where a succession of books stressed "le peril judéo-maçonnique." The notion of a sinister alliance between the two played a conspicuous part in the Dreyfus Affair and it became an antisemitic commonplace. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (first published in Russia in 1904) included the idea of a Jewish-Masonic plot to control the world.