Hitler Imprisoned Rothschilds
Of all the beneficial acts the National Socialist German Labor Party took in their pre-war leadership to restore and advance their nation and people, perhaps the most contentious and bold was imprisoning members of the world's most powerful banking family, the Rothschilds. German Chancellor Hitler and his NSDAP party knew that displacing Jews from dominant positions throughout the social, economic and financial system was essential to rescuing Germany from abject poverty and despair. The Nuremberg Laws begun in 1935 formally titled The Law for the Protection of German Blood & German Honor and The Reich Citizenship Law1 made it illegal for Jews as defined to vote or hold public office. Even more important was displacing Jews from their powerful positions in major industries such as textiles, steel production, precious metals, retail, media and entertainment, food and agriculture, and especially, banking.
By 1938 The Institute for Studies of the Jewish Question located in Berlin produced their analysis of the Weimar period, titled Germany and the Jewish Question.2 Chapter 2, Jews in German Economic Life, states: “...well-nigh every leading (financial and banking) business was in the hands of the Jews”. After recounting the extensive Jewish presence leading national banks, we read: “The big private banks were also nearly all in Jewish hands. We need only recall such well-known firms as Arnhold, Behrens, Warburg, Bleichroder, Mendelsohn, Goldschmidt, Rothschild...” Even the Reichsbank, “Supposed to be the national bank of Germany... was completely controlled by its largely Jewish board of directors.”
Two final quotes from Germany and the Jewish Question will summarize our depiction of the financial conditions which the National Socialists and Chancellor Hitler faced in 1933. “...Jews concentrated themselves on commercial and financial undertakings and assumed therein absolute leading positions.” “...nowhere have Jews been more downright unrestrained than during the era of economic and political corruption which Germany experienced after the Great War.”
The Rothschilds
The dominance which the Rothschild Jewish banking family had previously attained in Germany and much of Western Europe can be summarized in the earlier work of Werner Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism3
“The name Rothschild refers to more than the firm : it stands for the whole of Jewish influence on the Stock Exchange. By the aid of that influence the Rothschilds were enabled to attain to their powerful position—it may even be said to their unique position—in the market for Government securities. It was no exaggeration to assert that in many a land the minister of finance who could not come to an agreement with this firm might as well close the doors of his exchequer. 'There is only one power in Europe,' was a dictum well-known about the middle of the 19th century, 'and that is Rothschild : a dozen other banks are his underlings, his soldiers are all honest merchants and workmen, and speculation is his sword.'”
“...not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively, the Stock Exchange bears the impress of the Rothschilds (and therefore of the Jew).”
“...since the appearance of the Rothschilds, the stock market has become international.”
“...the issue by the Rothschilds of the Austrian bonds in 1820-1 was an epoch-making event, both in public borrowing and in Stock Exchange business. For the first time all the ropes were pulled to create a demand for the shares, and speculations in Government stocks may be stated to have begun on this occasion, at least on the Continent.”
“...The house of Rothschild set the fashion in railway building (at about mid-century), as it had done before in public loans. Scarcely a company that was started in Germany but looked to the goodwill of Rothschild.”
Though not the only Jewish bankers the National Socialists prosecuted, we will focus on the Rothschilds due to their enormous financial influence in Germany and Europe more broadly, and the dramatic events that unfolded during the National Socialist period.
Breaking News
By 1938 prominent English-language newspapers were reporting on the imprisonment of Rothschild family members and confiscation of their assets. This coincided with the Anschluss, the reunification of Germany and Austria that became official on March 12th.
To understand conditions in Austria prior to the Anschluss, we look to the essay “How 'The Sound of Music' Distorts History: Hollywood Mythology About Austrians and Hitler”4 :
“In the years before the March 1938 Anschluss, Austria was ruled by the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime, a repressive one-party dictatorship that called itself a ‘Christian Corporative’ state. It imprisoned National Socialists, Marxists and other dissidents. But there was one important section of Austria's population that supported the dictatorial regime. That was the Jewish community, which made up 2.8 percent of the total. As Prof. Bukey writes (in Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. University of North Carolina Press, 2000): 'The Jewish community regarded the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime as its protector ... Under the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime the Jewish community recovered a measure of governmental protection it had not enjoyed since the days of the Habsburgs. The public was outraged.'
“In spite of their small numbers, Austria's Jews wielded vast and disproportionate wealth and power. As Prof. Bukey writes: 'The predominant position of the Jews in an impoverished country only intensified the fear and loathing of the Austrians masses. As we have already seen, Jewish businesses and financial institutions managed much of the country's economic life. At the time of the Anschluss three-quarters of Vienna's newspapers, banks and textile firms were in Jewish hands ...'”
A good deal of that Austrian Jewish wealth and power was wielded by the Rothschilds, and one in particular, Baron Louis Rothschild.
On April 8th, 1938, the popular Scottish newspaper the Dundee Evening Telegraph announced: “Nazis Take Over Rothschild Bank”.
“It was officially announced last night that the S. M. Rothschild bank in Vienna has been taken over by a public body, the Austrian Credit Institute for Public Works. The proprietor, Baron Louis Rothschild, is under arrest and the other partners have been suspended.”
On April 10th, the Chicago Sunday Tribune announced “Nazi Seizure Ends Austrian Banking Power”. The first paragraph by author Laurence Burd states:
“When the Rothschild family last week filed suit to save their then $3,300,000 of assets from confiscation by the German Nazi government, it brought to a focus the death blow dealt by Hitler in the once powerful Viennese financial stronghold with the wiping out of Austria. When Hitler marched into Vienna, Baron Louis von Rothschild, last head of the Viennese branch of the family, was arrested and his properties, including the Rothschild bank, were confiscated.”
Such phrases as “the wiping out of Austria” and “Hitler marched into Vienna” are misleading anti-German propaganda. The Anschluss was immensely popular with the peoples of both nations, returning a collective plebiscite vote of 98%. Hitler's “march into Vienna” was attended by cheering crowds of Austrians throwing flowers and offering the National Socialist salute.
Under sub-section “Germany Gains Credits”:
“...the German government has increased its credits abroad by taking over the credits of individual and private businesses in Austria, variously valued at from 100 to 200 million dollars. In return for these credits, Germany pays reichsmarks... What Hitler gained in gold from Austria was small in comparison with the financial empire which the House of Rothschild throughout Europe built and zealously guarded throughout the last century.”
The article goes on to try and assert that the Rothschild banking empire is finished. It ends with:
“...the House of Rothschild rose to the heights and then disintegrated.”
However, earlier in the same section, “Hold Fortune in Paris”, we read:
“A large fortune is held privately by the Rothschilds in Paris. Only in London have the Rothschilds retained a public business. There they operate one of the foremost acceptance banks and are prominent dealers in gold bullion.”
No mention is made of the large stake the Rothschilds held in the Federal Reserve central bank loaning money at interest to the US government and taxing the American people on income to pay the interest, and other banks and assets around the world. The National Socialist seizure of Rothschild assets in Austria was no “death blow” to the Jewish banking family, but it was certainly a boost to the prosperity, well-being and sense of justice to the Germanic people of both nations.
By May 11, the Central Queensland Herald published a short article titled, “Attack on Rothschilds”. It states in full:
“Herr Streicher's Jew-baiting journal devotes several pages to a vituperative attack on the house of Rothschilds. It accuses the Austrian branch of robbing Vienna of 2,000,000,000 Austrian schillings.
The paper prints a photograph of Baron Louis Rothschild, whom it describes as the 'financial criminal, von Rothschild.' It states that the photograph was taken seven days before his confinement in (jail), and adds, 'Here he looks sure of victory. Since then his confidence has deserted him.'”
Julius Streicher was a devoted National Socialist who produced the journal Der Sturmer, the Attacker, with admittedly graphic and stereo-typic depictions of Jews and sensationalist coverage of news from a National Socialist perspective. It maintained a relatively simple and direct style to appeal to the German working class.5 In this case, accusing the Rothschilds of robbing Vienna of 2 billion schillings is probably an accurate estimate.
A US newspaper reported on August 20 about news in The London Daily Herald titled: “Germany Reported Not Satisfied with $600,000 for Release of Rothschild”.
“German authorities are not satisfied with a 120,000 pound ($600,000) 'ransom' offered for the release of Baron Louis Rothschild and have demanded control of the Wittkowitz works, biggest industrial concern in Czechoslovakia, in addition to the money, according to the Daily Herald.
The Austrian Rothschilds offered the 120,000 pounds for the release of the noted financier, held by the Nazis since Austro-German Anschluss, the newspaper said. The French branch of the family also declared itself willing to make a considerable contribution, it added.”
When decades later the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on the death of Louis Rothschild at 72, the “ransom” paid to the National Socialist authorities was then reported to have grown enormously. Headline: “Baron Louis De Rothschild Dead: Paid $21,000,000 Ransom to Nazis”.6
“When the Nazis took over Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, Baron de Rothschild, then head of the Austrian banking operations of the family, was held prisoner by the Nazi secret police. He was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000, believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.”
Given the Jewish tendency to exaggerate numbers, this amount may be more ongoing war propaganda, or it may partly include the value of the Wittkowitz works in Czechoslovakia. This iron and coal mining and steel producing plant was majority owned by the Rothschilds, but one historical account7 says the National Socialists actually paid 2 million pounds and released Louis in exchange for the mines and works. Given some obvious errors in the entry, whether deliberate propaganda or poor historical representation—such as a myth of the Baron's gallant statement upon release, along with a depiction of the German military entering Czechoslovakia in an invasion instead of as a peacekeeping force invited by Czech President Dr. Hacha8—we must suspect this account as invalid. But how credible is a claim of $21 million, when the original negotiations started at $600,000?
This historical account does have some credible history on the pograms desperate miners inflicted on Jews in the Wittkowitz area from 1890 onward.
“Many mill and mine owners in this locality were Jews, the biggest iron and steel works at Witkowitz being the property of the Rothschilds, which made it easy to mix up the Judenhetze (persecution of Jews) with the strikes. One Galician town which was almost wholly inhabited by Jews was destroyed by fire, several hundred Jewish families camping in the fields in utter destitution. Throughout these provinces there was scarcely a town where, during the last fortnight of April, Jewish shops had not been broken open and looted, and on May Day there threatened to be a universal attack made on the Hebrew.”
Here was the sad old pattern of Jews exploiting and impoverishing Gentiles through economic and financial domination, provoking an inevitable defensive reaction, arising again at the Witkowitz mines and plant. The equally inevitable counter-reaction came in 1892 when “troops were called” (by the Rothschilds?) to confront miners and workers demanding a shorter work day and a celebration of May Day. Nine workers were killed and many wounded.
Given the National Socialist reverence for workers, and policies of fairness and support for their well-being, we can be assured conditions and wages materially improved at Wittkowitz during the brief time it was under National Socialist oversight. The region was lost to the Soviets after the war and conditions became as bad as under the Rothschilds.
We will next explore an extensive historical account on the Rothschild Jewish banking family, which provides a final point on the Wittkowitz sub-topic.
“Although Louis had to hand over most of his Austrian assets to secure his own release, the family was able to insist that a price be paid for Witkowitz (albeit a discounted price). But such legal niceties were ultimately bound to be swept aside by National Socialist force majeure. Eugene’s hopes of selling the ironworks to the Czechoslovak state for £10 million were dashed when Hitler bullied the Prague government into accepting partition in March 1939. With the works effectively under German control... Fritz Kranefuss — Himmler ’s adjutant and a supervisory board member of the Dresdner bank — informed... that the transfer abroad of the ownership of Witkowitz had been illegal under currency laws. Finally, in July 1939, it was agreed to sell the plant for £2.9 million. However, the outbreak of war gave the Germans the perfect excuse not to pay. As a result, Witkowitz joined the lengthening list of Rothschild properties confiscated without compensation by the National Socialist regime.”9
Here we see one glaring defamation already noted, a reference to Hitler “bullying” the government of Czechoslovakia into partition. In fact, segments of the German army entered parts of Czechoslovakia under an agreement between Hitler and the Czech government as a peacekeeping force, and the multi-racial nation partitioned into its appropriate ethno-states without war or even a single incidence of violence. (see footnote 8)
Finally, exactly one year since his arrest on April 8th, 1938, Louis Rothschild was released by his National Socialist captors on April 8th, 1939. The Perth Western Australia Daily News headlined: “Nazis Free Rothschild, Seize His Bank”
“Whether ex-King Edward of England, the Duke of Windsor, had anything to do with it is not announced, but his Jewish friend, Austrian banker Baron Louis Rothschild, was released today by the Nazis. But the Rothschild Bank is confiscated. The Duke made a personal plea to Hitler for the release of Rothschild and others three weeks ago. But he was given a rebuff. Hitler replied, 'regretting his inability to comply with the request.'”
Thus ended the first and greatest incarceration of the Rothschilds by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German government. It was not the last, however.
The House of Rothschild, The World's Bankers, 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson
Of all the immense volume of printed, audio and video material produced on the Rothschilds, this two book series by Niall Ferguson may be the most detailed and extensive. Like so much such material, most likely sanctioned by the Rothschilds themselves, Ferguson white-washes the evils and damage the Jewish banking family has inflicted on the world and its peoples. It does contain valuable details of the actions that the National Socialist government took against the Rothschilds during that crucial period starting with the 1938 Anschluss, so we will look extensively at such accounts. They are contained in Chapter 14, “Deluges (1915-1945)”:
“An altogether more ruthless coalition had come to power in Germany (than in France) in 1933, the National Socialist German Worker's Party. Hostility to the Rothschilds had been a feature of Nazi propaganda since the movement's infancy... despite the fact that the Frankfurt house had been wound up when Hitler was barely twelve years old. It was a hostility that was soon translated into action. At first the attacks were largely symbolic...”10
These amounted to renaming some buildings, plazas and streets, the forced selling of Rothschild buildings and institutions, tax payments and some confiscation of assets. It was not until the Anschluss that the arrest and incarceration of the first Rothschild began. Louis had been working in Vienna to protect family wealth from the potential National Socialist confiscation:
“It had not been difficult to foresee what the rise of Nazism meant for the Rothschilds in Vienna—the city so inextricably associated in Hitler's mind with the threat posed by Jewry... (After other family members left Austria for England) Louis decided to stay at the bank; but he took the precaution of transferring ownership of the Witkowitz ironworks to the Alliance Assurance Company (in which the London house still had a controlling interest). He also transferred rights of disposal over all his Austrian assets to the New York bank of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. This was inadequate insurance. The day after the Austro-German Anschluss of March 11, 1938, as cheering crowds welcomed Hitler's troops into Vienna, Louis attempted to leave the city. His passport was confiscated, and the next day he was arrested and taken to the Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Metropol on Morzin-Platz... The process of confiscating Rothschild property began at once. SS men were seen looting artworks from Louis's palace almost immediately after his arrest. On March 30 the firm of S. M. von Rothschild was placed under compulsory administration by a new Austrian Credit Institute for Public Enterprises and Works at the orders of the Vienna Gauleiter's economic adviser Walter Rafelsberger, who was charged with the systematic confiscation of all Jewish assets in Austria. It was then put under the temporary control of the German firm of Merck, Fink and Co. and finally sold to them in October 1939.”11
These events precipitated the newspaper reports we have already examined. “The threat posed by Jewry” in Vienna in Hitler's mind is well documented in Mein Kampf,12 and certainly valid from the perspective of a native Austrian and almost anyone else but Jews. The Kuhn, Loeb bank on Wall Street was of course the source of funds for the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 that went on to threaten Germany and all of Europe at the time we are discussing. Close associate of the Rothschilds—he was raised in a home with the Rothschilds themselves at 148 Judengasse, Frankfurt13—Jacob Schiff was the chief Jewish financier at Kuhn, Loeb, and may have given the order or at least approval that slaughtered the Czar and all his family in the Ekaterinberg house basement. It was to this same Jewish Wall Street bank that Louis tried to sequester his assets.
No reference is given for “SS men seen looting artworks”, but this is a common theme throughout this section by Ferguson (and others elsewhere): the injustice of National Socialists confiscating valuable Rothschild art. The injustice is reversed when it is known the Rothschilds acquired their wealth to buy expensive art through usury theft and predatory finance practices.
Whether “the systematic confiscation of all Jewish assets in Austria” was ever enacted or is more Jewish victim mongering can be addressed further in the text, when Ferguson writes: “Naturally, many (though not all) German and Austrian Jews wanted to get out, while the Nazis had no objection to their leaving...”14
The next section details with the usual pathos Jewish “refugees”, and the Rothschild involvement in resettling them. Of course despite great controversy even among Jews, Palestine was their ultimate destination. We are treated to some obligatory horror stories about the “holocaust”, including an excerpt from a speech by Victor Rothschild15 to the Zionist Federation in which he said:
“I know that children have been shot dead. I have interviewed people who have escaped from the concentration camps, and I can tell you that their experiences make the many horrors we read about nowadays seem like some nursery game...
“'The slow murder of 600,000 people' he told his audience, 'is an act which has rarely happened in history.'”
This was in October 1938! Jews had been kvetching about fraudulent massacres and pograms and inflating their numbers for decades if not centuries, and more if we include the Torah and Talmud mythologies. In this case, Victor left out one Zero which was dutifully added after the war.
Sons of Rothschild, POWs
After a detailed account of Rothschilds themselves who became “refugees” (not to Palestine, but to friendlier and more hospitable accommodations in Britain, the US and elsewhere), we find a brief account of other Rothschild imprisonments:
“That left the men of the younger generation to fight. Robert's sons Alaine and Elie were both taken prisoner by the Germans, and ended up spending much of the war in a POW camp in Lubek (and, in the case of Elie, Colditz).”
Alaine's obituary in the New York Times in 1982 gives even less information, simply stating: “Like many French Jews, Baron Alain spent most of World War II in a detention camp.”16 Lubek, on the Baltic Sea, was in Military District 10, Hamburger, during the war.17 The Germans maintained a POW camp there for officers known as Oflag (officers' camp) X-C, and it was here that Alaine must have been detained. Miraculously though, he must not have been aboard the Caps Arcona and two other immense passenger ships that were transporting prisoners away from the advancing British navy and air force, that were sunk by the British, causing about 7000 casualties of POW's and others.18
Elie Rothschild was, considering his aristocratic banker heritage, appropriately detained in a famous castle, Colditz Castle, in the town of the same name in Saxony. This was designated Oflag IV-C, and many officers from diverse units of the multi-national enemy were detained there. Strangely, while a detailed Wikipedia entry makes mention of many less infamous names, no mention is made of Elie Rothschild.19 We will have to trust Niall Ferguson in his reporting on the imprisonment of these two Rothschild sons.
Rothschild Women Imprisoned
The final account Ferguson makes of any Rothschild imprisonment follows thus:
“Two members of the family died as a consequence of the Nazi policy of genocide. The aunt to whom Victor referred in his speech in the Lords in 1946 was his mother's elder sister Aranka, who perished at Buchenwald.”
Victor claimed that “he himself had had a 75 year old aunt clubbed to death by the SS outside an extermination camp”.20 Why not within the camp, and why not by gassing, is perhaps explainable because Jews had not fully settled upon the gas chamber mythology in 1946. No reference is given for this story.
“The other victim was Philippe's estranged wife Lili (Elizabeth). 'Why should the Germans harm me?' she had asked him in 1940. 'I am from an old French Catholic family.' Despite reverting to her original title, the comptesse de Chambure, she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent by the last transport to Ravensbruck where, her husband was later told, she was brutally murdered. It is thus the blackest of ironies that the only person named Rothschild killed by the Nazis was not a Jew and had disowned the family name.”21
No reference is given for this story either, except “her husband was later told”. Did Phillipe Rothschid even care about the fate of his “estranged” Gentile ex? Irony does not begin to describe it. In fact Elizabeth is reported to have died of typhus like so many at Ravensbruck and throughout the German prison system, not “brutally murdered”.22 This entry is also historically wrong because it starts out saying two Rothschilds had been killed by the "Nazis", and then finishes by saying it was ironic that the only one killed was not really a Rothschild. Perhaps Ferguson justifies this because Aranka had taken her husband's last name, and was no longer named Rothschild, but this seems thin reasoning. In fact, no Rothschild by any name was killed by the National Socialist Germans. One, Aranka, died of disease like so many, in German prisons that were working to try and cure them.
No reference is given for any of the statements presented here, or many throughout this chapter from the most credible and voluminous account of the Rothschild banking family ever published. This is quite understandably explained, however, by an asterix footnote on the first page of the Epilogue:
“The reader is reminded that this section of the book is not based on archival research but on published sources and interviews. Neither it nor chapter 14 therefore provides anything more than a sketch of a future history of the Rothschild banks since 1915—a task for another historian some years hence. Partly for this reason, I have kept endnotes to a minimum.”
No doubt another reason endnotes are kept to a minimum is the fact that a Penguin/Putman merger known as the Penguin Publishing Group, which published this book, became owned by Random House. Random House was founded by the two Jews Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Jew Peter Mayer was a former CEO of Penguin books.23 When Putnam merged with Penguin Phyllis Grann became the CEO of the new Penguin Group. Soon after Ferguson's two book series on the Rothschilds was published. Grann was half Jewish.24
The Rothschild Shares In Waterloo: National Socialist Propaganda as Historical Fact?
In 1940, supposedly at the urging of the German Ministry of Information led by Joseph Goebbels, Eric Waschneck directed and C. M. Kohn produced the film The Rothschild's Shares in Waterloo. This film appears to be one of three attempts the National Socialists made to counteract three American films made in 1934. In this case one American film had a very similar plot to the German version, but depicting the Rothschilds and Jews generally in a more philo-semitic fashion. During the introduction of the German version, when the historical context is being established by scrolling text, we read: “This film is based on historical fact.”
The Wikipedia plot summary is sufficiently accurate, as it rarely is on all things National Socialist:
“As William I, Elector of Hesse refused to join the French supporting Confederation of the Rhine at its formation in 1806, he is threatened by Napoleon. In Frankfurt, he asks his agent Mayer Amschel Rothschild to convey bonds worth £600,000 he has received from Britain to subsidize his army to safety in England. Rothschild however uses the money for his own ends, with the help of his sons, Nathan Rothschild in London and James Rothschild in Paris. They first use the money to finance Wellington's army in Spain's war against Napoleon, at advantageous terms of interest. In a notable coup, in 1815, Nathan spreads the rumour that Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo, causing London stock prices to collapse. He then bought a large quantity of equities at the bottom of the market, profiting handsomely as prices rose once the truth about the battle emerged. In a decade, the Rothschilds have accumulated a fortune of £11 million by using the Elector's money. Nathan returns the original capital to the Elector, plus only a small amount of interest, keeping the great bulk of the profits for the Rothschilds, and plans to formalise a Europe wide network of family led financial institutions. The film ends with a declaration that, as the film is released, the last Rothschild has left continental Europe as a refugee and the next target is England's plutocracy.”25
At the core of the film is the depiction of the rapacious deceitful Rothschilds scheming to manipulate the stock market with false news of the Battle of Waterloo, buying during the panic selling and reaping an enormous profit when the real news arrived that the British, not Napoleon, had won. Rothschild achieved his advance notice of the outcome of the battle by corrupting a German agent and sending him to the war zone, who sent back a carrier pigeon message.
This depiction has taken on wide-spread iconic belief, but it is essential to be accurate and evaluate whether “this film is based on historical fact”. Not surprisingly, the Rothschilds have their own archive, where this story is examined for accuracy. It acknowledges that the depiction was presented in the otherwise reputable The House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson examined earlier, but “In a more sinister vein it formed the basis...” of the National Socialist film we are examining.26
The Cathcart essay in the Rothschild archives dismisses a few sources of the story of the Rothschild stock rip-off readily, and makes a good case that carrier pigeons were not in use in England in 1815 (though they had been used for millennia and later would be used by the Rothschild's Reuters news service). The historical analysis is hard to trust, since some of its references are the Rothschild's archives themselves, but here are key points it does admit: “... Rothschild was one of a number of people in London who received private information about the battle before Wellington’s official dispatch was delivered at about 11pm on Wednesday.” Also, "It appears likely... that Rothschild bought stocks on Wednesday afternoon. If he did so at around 5 per cent premium then he could have sold the next day at 8 per cent or more – a very handsome overnight return fully worth the description ‘doing well’”. It goes on to say that the Rothschilds did not scoop the entire market, were not the only ones with insider knowledge, and did not make the largest killing that day.
However, this passage from a British newspaper announcing the news of the Wellington victory at Waterloo presented in the Cathcart essay does not deny the dominance of the Rothschilds in British finance, and Cathcart does not either: “This I have from good authority – one who has seen a letter from Ghent, received by Rothschild, the great stockbroker whose information is invariably the best.”
The great stockbroker whose information is invariably the best may not have cornered the market through deceit as The Rothschild's Shares at Waterloo film depicts, but he certainly was in on the action, and “profited handsomely”, as the film summary depicts, through early notice amounting to a form of insider trading. Typical of Jewish bankers and financiers, the Rothschilds displayed no conscience or morals in their business dealings.
George Mandel, born Louis George or Jeroboam Rothschild
George Mandel was almost certainly a crypto-Rothschild. His birth name was Louis George or possibly Jeroboam Rothschild and he was born in the affluent suburbs of western Paris in 1885 to a Jewish family. He went on to a career in French politics that saw him operating at the highest levels of national decision-making, and brought him into personal contact with Winston Churchill. Before we look at more of his career and his ultimate imprisonment by the National Socialists, we must first better establish that Mandel nee Rothschild was most likely one of the notorious banking family.
In a dramatic article about Rothschild/Mandel that strangely also fixates on alleged National Socialist confiscation of valuable art, the author does not deny that Mandel was a Rothschild, but does not affirm it either:
“Mandel thought the name Rothschild was too identifiably Jewish and, moreover, too Rothschild; it suggested that he belonged to the pan-European banking dynasty that was so often the subject of anti-Semitic invective and outlandish conspiracy theories. So he decided on his middle name followed by his mother’s maiden name: Georges Mandel.”27
This name change is a standard strategy of cryto-Jews, with too many examples to mention, and it looks like it was also a strategy for crypto-Rothschilds like “Mandel”.
Louis George Rothschild/George Mandel28 was born in 1885 in an affluent suburb of Paris. Supposedly the son of a tailor, his Jewish family had moved from Alsace to near Paris when the Alsace-Lorraine region was annexed to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. Rothschild/Mandel was working at the socialist newspaper L’Aurore under the later French statesman George Clemenceau when the Dreyfuss Affair was raging, the case of a Jew in the French army leaking state secrets to the German embassy. When Clemenceau later became Minister of the Interior, he brought Rothschild/Mandel along as an “Aide”. Rothschild/Mandel was elected to the French parliament in 1919 and again in 1928, and appointed to Minister of Posts in 1934, which included arranging the first French television broadcast. Politically he was an “outspoken opponent of Nazism and Fascism. In the 1930s, he played a similar role to that of Winston Churchill in the United Kingdom, highlighting the dangers posed by the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany.” Rothschild/Mandel supported a French military alliance with the Soviet Union, and was against the Munich Agreement that preserved peace in Europe at the time.
Rothschild/Mandel’s warmongering became more obvious when he advocated France engage in aggressive war against Germany after German Chancellor Hitler finally was forced to send the Wehrmacht into Poland after many failed attempts at peace and alliance with Poland.29 Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. “Mandel was accused by some on the Right of being a warmonger and of placing his Jewish ancestry above France's interests.” Certainly other International Jews were active in agitating and orchestrating the German/Polish conflict as the start of the greater cataclysm they arranged, World War Two.30 Less than nine months later Germany launched a pre-emptive strike against the 2.4 million man French/British army that was poised on the border with Belgium to invade Germany. As the National Socialist Wehrmacht was marching toward Paris, Rothschild/Mandel opposed signing an armistice agreement.
Only nine days before France signed the armistice agreement with Germany, the Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill—only less than a month in office himself—met in Tours with the French government in retreat of Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. Rothschild/Mandel was the Minister of the Interior at the time, and Churchill was received at the prefecture. Churchill said of Rothschild/Mandel “He was energy and defiance personified”, and “His ideas were simple: fight on to the end in France…” “This was the last time I saw this valiant Frenchman.”31 The first official time was as early as 1936, when Churchill as an MP visited Rothschild/Mandel in Paris, who told Churchill “they were witnessing a breakdown of British and French influence in Europe”32, ostensibly partly due to the popularity of National Socialism, but also the Communist influence in France and Spain and elsewhere. We will return to Churchill’s account again later.
June 16th 1940 was an eventful day, as Reynaud resigned and Petain prepared to establish the Vichy administration that cooperated with Germany. On this day Rothschild/Mandel’s complex imprisonment history began when he was briefly arrested, but released through the appeals of prominent parliament members. The next day British General Edward Spears offered Rothschild/Mandel passage on his plane to safety, but the Jewish cabinet member apparently made a defiant statement and attempted to convince other parliament members to escape to French North Africa, there to continue the resistance against German National Socialism. Only a handful agreed and they went to French Morocco. Rothschild/Mandel was among only fourteen percent of the parliament who voted against the establishment of the Vichy government.
He was finally arrested more permanently on August 8th in French Morocco, but not by the National Socialists. It was by order of the Vichy Prime Minister Pierre Laval, and Rothschild/Mandel was brought back to France for trial. He was imprisoned in the same castle as former Prime Ministers Reynaud and Radical-Socialist Edouard Daladier. Churchill attempted to intervene and arrange for this Jewish defendant’s release, allegedly calling him “the first resister” and recommended him as a better leader of French resistance than Charles De Gaulle.
The Riom Trial33 conducted in the central France city of that name accused seven defendants of failing in their duties to France by declaring war on Germany in 1939 and then losing the war, and also of being the war aggressors, not Germany. The main defendant was the Jewish Communist Prime Minister of the Popular Front French government (1936-40) promoted by Stalin, Leon Blum. Rothschild/Mandel was initially one of the defendants convicted to life imprisonment, but later President Petain inexplicably withdrew charges against him and Rothschild/Mandel was transferred to the German State Police (Gestapo). This occurred in November 1942 after the Germans moved into unoccupied southern France to prepare for Allied invasion out of North Africa. The National Socialist administration transferred Rothschild/Mandel to Oranienberg prison, and then Buchenwald, where Leon Blum was also detained. Thus began the period when another Rothschild was imprisoned by National Socialists.
Rothschild/Mandel’s imprisonment was further complicated by the assassination of Phillippe Henriot34 on June 28th 1944 by a contingent of the Maquis, communist/socialist/anarchist resistance subversives against the German and Vichy French cause. Henriot was an enormously popular radio personality and the Vichy Secretary of Information, called a “French Goebbels”. He was devout Catholic and anti-communist, understanding that National Socialism was the best defense against the Bolshevik Revolution that might eradicate the practice of the Christian religion in Europe. He was also said to be an “anti-Semite” and “anti-Freemasonry”, a natural ally of the National Socialists.
Soon after the killing of Henriot, the German ambassador to France Otto Abenz recommended that Laval execute Blum, Reynaud and Rothschild/Mandel in reprisal. Laval was reluctant. On July 4th 1944 Rothschild/Mandel was transferred to Paris, ostensibly considered a hostage. Here a curious incident occurred. During his transfer between prisons, Rothschild/Mandel was allegedly captured by the Milice, a French nationalist paramilitary group supported by Laval and the official Vichy government, and bitter enemy of the Maquis. A few days later the Milice took Rothschild/Mandel to a forest south of Paris and executed him. Thus ended the complex imprisonment saga of this Jewish Rothschild, enemy of National Socialism and nationalist France.
After Rothschild/Mandel was executed by the French Milice, Prime Minister Laval at a cabinet meeting on July 12th stated “...I have no blood on my hands and I never will have… I have no responsibility for these events. I am not covering these actions. These are methods which I utterly deplore. George Mandel is dead. I am sorry that he was killed in such circumstances.”35
Did the German State Police allow the Milice, supported by Laval, to “capture” Rothschild/Mandel and execute him? Did Laval then engage in vociferous denial and condemnation of the execution, in order to avoid another round of potential counter-reprisals? As we have seen, if so it was ineffective. The post-war execution of Laval was just the kind of revenge the Rothschild banker family would arrange for the death of one of their own.
Churchill said: “The restored French Republic rightly shot to death the hirelings who murdered him (Rothschild/Mandel). His memory is honored by his countrymen and their allies.” The "hirelings" Churchill was referring to were Laval and the French Fascist who advocated for Mandel’s execution Robert Brasillach, both themselves executed in 1945 after the war.
Some possible speculations are required. It is likely that the German ambassador Abenz received communications from Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, most likely in communication with Chancellor Hitler. Quite possibly the suggestion to execute Rothschild/Mandel to balance the assassination of Henriot came from here. Also, why did Churchill have such close connections with and apparent sympathies for Rothschild/Mandel, if not because Churchill himself was sponsored and handled by the British Rothschilds? After all, a bankrupt Churchill who had suffered stock losses during the world-wide Great Depression was bailed out in 1936 by member of the ironically-named Focus Group for Peace and Freedom the Jew Robert Whaley-Cohen, President of British Shell, subsidiary of the world’s largest oil company Royal Dutch Shell, a Rothschild holding. Whaley-Cohen lavishly sponsored the Focus group in which Churchill was a member, and closely edited and paid Churchill for his writings.36 From there Churchill was groomed for his Prime Minister war role. Another of his duties for the Rothschilds may have been to rescue their family member “George Mandel” from the Vichy and National Socialist governments.
Conclusion
In a relatively short period of time from 1938 to 1944, the National Socialist German Workers Party led by Chancellor Adolf Hitler imprisoned at least five members of history’s wealthiest and most powerful banking family, whose scheming profiteering had inflicted mass poverty, misery and death for many decades throughout Europe and the world. Louis, Alain, Ellie, Aranka and Jeroboam/George Mandel or Louis George Rothschild all found themselves in National Socialist prisons, their ruinous activities curtailed and assets confiscated for the beneficial use of the Third Reich and the National Socialist cause against both International Jewry and Bolshevik Communism in Europe. This unprecedented bold achievement was an act of profound justice the world had rarely seen since Jesus whipped the money-changers—also Jews, Hebrew Pharisees--out of the Temple. Scarcely a person alive today with rudimentary knowledge of history would not cheer for such a development on our world stage.
National Socialist economic and finance policy through respect for workers, meritocracy and government issued currency without debt to International Jewry made the Rothschilds its bitterest enemy. The National Socialists did not hesitate to imprison members of this ultra-wealthy and powerful Jewish banking family, setting an example of aggressive justice almost unheard-of in world history. It is one we would be wise to implement today.
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Ostara Publications, 2014 ppg 34-40
3 The Jews and Modern Capitalism, Werner Sombart, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1915, ppg 99-105
https://archive.org/details/thejewsandmoderncapitalism_201907/mode/2up?q=Rothschild
4 “How 'The Sound of Music' Distorts History: Hollywood Mythology About Austrians and Hitler”, Mark Weber,
Institute for Historical Review, May 4 2011 http://www.ihr.org/other/weber2011soundofmusic.html
5 Streicher, Rosenberg andn the Jews, The Nuremberg Transcripts, Thomas Dalton, Castle Hill Publishers, 2020,
Uckfield UK, ppg. 111-243
6 “Baron Louis De Rothschild Dead: Paid $21,000,000 Ransom to Nazis”, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 17 1955
https://www.jta.org/1955/01/17/archive/baron-louis-de-rothschild-dead-paid-21000000-ransom-to-nazis
7 “Wittkowitz Mines and Iron Works”, GlobalSecurity.org
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/at-kuk-witkowitz.htm
8“A Czech-German agreement was concluded which provided for an autonomous Bohemian-Moravian regime under German protection. (…) (Hitler) attained results without bloodshed, and the danger of a war between the Czechs and Slovaks was averted. (…) Hitler was pleased with the Czech response to his policy. Several regions of dangerous instability had been pacified without loss of life...”
The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed, David L Hoggan, Institute for Historical Review, 1989 ppg. 248-252
9The House of Rothschild, The World's Bankers, 1849-1998, Niall Ferguson, Penguin Putnam, New York, 1998, pg. 471
https://archive.org/details/houseofrothschil000v2ferg_c6f9/mode/2up
10Ibid, pg 740
11Ibid, pg. 741
12Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, translated Thomas Dalton, Clemens and Blair, New York, 2017, ppg. 127-153
13 “Alaine de Rothschild, Banker and Jewish Leader”, Frank J. Prial, The New York Times, Section B pg 6
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/19/obituaries/alain-de-rothschild-banker-and-jewish-leader.htmlsatanic-bloodlines-
that-rule-the-world/
14House of Rothschild, pg. 472
15“Victor Rothschild, who worked for J.P. Morgan & Co., and was an important part of MI5 (British Intelligence). Victor Rothschild was also a communist and member of the Apostles Club at Cambridge. Lord Rothschild was one of the original members of Rhode’s Round Table group which developed into the CFR.”
“The Rothschild Bloodline”
16“Alaine de Rothschild, Banker and Jewish Leader”, Frank J. Prial, The New York Times, Section B pg 6
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/19/obituaries/alain-de-rothschild-banker-and-jewish-leader.html
17“German Prisoner of War Camps During WW2”, Wikipedia
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18“Lubek”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck
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20House of Rothschild, pg. 474
21Ibid, pg. 478
22“Ravensbruck: The 'exclusive' SS women's concentration camp”, Alliance for Human Resource Protection, November 18, 2014. https://ahrp.org/august-1942-august-1943-heinous-medical-experiments-at-ravensbruck/
23https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople#Newspapers_and_publishing
24https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_E._Grann
25The Rothschilds (film), Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rothschilds_(film)
26“Nathan Rothschild and the Battle of Waterloo”, Brian Cathcart, Rothschild Archive
https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/nathan_and_waterloo.pdf
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28“George Mandel”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Mandel#cite_ref-10
29The Forced War
30The Jewish Hand in the World Wars, Thomas Dalton, Castle Hill Publishers, Uckfield UK, 2019, ppg. 117-124
31The Second World War: Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949, p. 199
32Churchill’s War: The Struggle for Power, David Irving, Focal Point Publications, 2015, p. 62
33“Riom Trial”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riom_Trial
34“Phillippe Henriot”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Henriot
35Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France, Geoffrey Warner, Macmillan Company, New York, 1968, p. 399
36Churchill’s War, ppg. 54-60