The Origins of this Infamous Canard and How It Spread.
Whether or not they know it, people who call George Soros a Nazi are echoing a malicious lie that was likely invented in the early 1990s by known anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. As early as December 1993, LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Report (EIR) was falsely claiming that Soros was a Nazi collaborator. “Soros is doing essentially the same thing now, in terms of what he’s doing to Eastern European economies and others, which he did by looting dead and dying Jews in Hungary,” said LaRouche. These and similar accusations published in the EIR set off a chain of lies about Soros that spread throughout the world and can be found on radio and TV, in print and online. [...]