The House Of the Rothschild Vol. 1 Niall Ferguson [...]... businesses in the history of modern capitalism Nevertheless, it is not intended as a narrowly economic history For one thing, the history of the firm is inseparable from the history of the family: the phrase the House of Rothschild,” which has often been used by previous historians (and film-makers) was used by contemporaries, including the Rothschilds themselves, to convey this unity While the regularly... woman!) lose all they own The star of David lies over England—over the part of the world that Nazi Germany fights All the themes of Nazi anti-Semitism are here The Jews have no allegiance to the countries where they live and merely wish to profit from the sufferings of others: “You can only make a lot of money with a lot of blood!” Mayer Amschel (Erich Ponto) tells Nathan (Karl Kuhlmann) Under their direction,... return By recommending the House of Rothschild [to others], especially at the Congress of Vienna, the Elector certainly assisted greatly in extending their connections This, then, was the decisive factor in the enormous development of [Mayer Amschel’s] business.” Few stories in financial history have been more frequently repeated, and the Rothschilds themselves did their share of the propagation Nathan... first news of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, Nathan had been able to make a huge sum of money by speculating on the stock exchange In later versions of the story, Nathan was said to have witnessed the battle himself, risking a Channel storm to reach London ahead of the official news of Wellington’s victory and thereby pocketing between £20 and £135 million Other accounts have him bribing the French... was broadly the argument (though not the language) of the early Zionists like Theodor Herzl, who came to believe that the only “solution to the Jewish question” was indeed for the Jews to leave Europe and found their own Judenstaat Herzl made a succession of attempts to win the support of the Rothschilds in the belief that they were about to “liquidate” their vast capital as a response to antiSemitic... the role of financial factors in the policies of the great statesmen of the nineteenth century Strangely, the many historians of a Marxist persuasion who were once so influential did hardly anything to rectify this, preferring to assert rather than to demonstrate that the interests of the ruling class were essentially the same as (or subordinate to) those of “finance capital.” In recent years, historians... vast archive of the Frankfurt house which also included all that had been kept of the Naples house s papers—was largely destroyed in 1912, with the exception of a very few early documents which were sent to Paris.4 Part of the archive of the Vienna house was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 and passed into Soviet hands at the end of the war along with various papers belonging to members of the French... diaries of nineteenth-century politicians The archive of the London house was not generally open to scholars before 1978, though members of the family and “insiders” like Lucien Wolf made use of documents there to produce a number of important monographs On the other hand, the archive of the French house the basis of Bertrand Gille’s monumental twovolume study published in the 1960s—was deposited in the. .. the money with the Jewish banker, Meyer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt The abusive use of this money becomes the foundation for the power of the Rothschilds Amschel Rothschild sends the money to his son Nathan who is not respected by his business rivals But Nathan ruthlessly outwits all of them He gets money to Wellington in Spain with the help of his brother in Paris—Nathan is the first to receive news... impossible to discuss the history of one without discussing the history of all five: they were, to all intents and purposes, the component parts of a multinational bank Even as late as the first decade of the twentieth century, the system of partnerships continued to function in such a way that “English” Rothschilds had a financial stake in the Paris house and “French” Rothschilds a stake in the London house . (181 6-1 825) FIVE - “Hue and Cry” (182 6-1 829) SIX - Amschel’s Garden SEVEN - Barons EIGHT - Sudden Revolutions (183 0-1 833) NINE - The Chains of Peace (183 0-1 833) TEN - The World’s Bankers ELEVEN - “Il est. Father and Sons ONE - “Our Blessed Father”: Origins TWO - The Elector’s Treasure II - Brothers THREE - The Commanding General” (181 3-1 815) FOUR - A“ Court Always Leads to Something” (181 6-1 825) FIVE. one thing, the history of the firm is inseparable from the history of the family: the phrase the House of Rothschild,” which has often been used by previous historians (and film-makers) was