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accelerating
delivery. "(p.22) When it profited Mayer Amschel, he would hire Christians, but in
general his business and banking were conducted by his close knit family. For instance Mayer
Amschel hired a young Christian woman to write his letters for him. (p. 25) Mayer Amschel
Rothschild and his family were wholeheartedly
Jewish. (p.27) Mayer Amschel Rothschild
picked his
sons’ wifes for the business gains the wives would bring the family. The oldest son was not happy
with this (actually he was bitter because he was denied marriage to the woman he loved), but he
complied with his father’s choice. (p.26) Amschel’s daughters all married bankers--in Worms, Sichel,
and Beyfus. (p.26) Mayer had ten children and they were all employed
in the family business. (p.25)
The Jews were taught from childhood up, that the Christians were to blame for all their woes, and that
the Christians were to be feared and detested. (p.24) Mayer Amschel had secret, underground
passages. (p.22) His carriage was honey-combed
with secret drawers. (p.27) The Napoleonic War
greatly helped the Rothschild
business. (p. 27) Rothschild even outsmarted Napoleon--because
the
Rothschilds
had such good connections.
(p.38) The Rothschilds
smuggled during the English blocade
of Napoleon’s Europe, and made millions. (p.33) "The Rothschilds changed course constantly during
this period, always manuevering
to avoid any kind of political commitment.
"(p.34) One of the things
Mayer Amschel set up, was to disperse his 5 sons to the major capitals of Europe. Anka attributes the
respectibility
of Jewish money lending to the help it gave merchants and entrepreneurs. [See chap. 3.2
-this Author’s view is that merchants had been borrowing for centuries prior to interest taking
becoming acceptable by society in the 19th century. It was greatly in part due to who owned and
controlled the major newspapers
in the 19th century--Jews and Masons--that
led the public to
change.] "The obligation to reimburse a loan and to pay interest became less onerous to men whose
affairs had flourished as a result of the borrowed money. The Jewish lender ceased to be a
bloodsucker;
often, indeed, he became an associate of the borrower." (p.31) [The Bible says a
borrower is a slave to the lender, hardly an association to be desired.] The business of financing
Monarchs was lucrative. The Rothschilds
had developed several traits in the ghetto that made their
family hard to stop. "The great gift the Frankfurt ghetto bestowed upon him [James Rothschild]
was
adaptibility,
a
quality matched by the driving force of his ambition, his prodigious energy,
tremendous
powers of concentration,
and determination
to get even [with Christians]. James set out to
make his place in the world." (p.40) The five Rothschild brothers, each in the five major European
capitals set up their own private courier system which was faster than the regular mail. (p.47) The
Rothschilds had news whether political or economic faster than anyone else including the monarchs.
"Thus the Rothschilds
had news before anyone else, including ministers [govt.]; they also understood
how to make use of it." (p.47) [Somewhat akin to how money could be made off of knowing the
future.] The Rothschilds
nomal correspondence to each other was in code.(p.46) Their world was one
of finance, politics and secrecy. In the anti-Napoleonic
time period, the Rothschilds increased their
wealth ten-fold. (p.47) "...James. He enjoyed, moreover, a rock-solid strength and stability, built up
by his family, that family simultaneously
closed tight like a fist, united by mutual confidence and an
invisible wall of secrecy, yet wide open to the outside world. Such was the cohesion of the
Rothschilds
that the removal of one or more of them left no gap in their common defenses."
The Rothschilds
carried out espionage with their own intelligence
service, and other questionable
subversive activities but none of these could be tracked. "Whenever Mayer Amschel and his sons
were on the verge of being caught out, some highly placed person stepped in and stopped the
investigation."
(p.36)
The made their money doing technically
illegal activity. The original
large sum of money made was
to take the Elector of Hesse’s large sum and instead of investing it into government
bonds as directed-
-to put it to use at investments
of higher returns, and giving the elector the return from the
government bonds. Anka writes, "The Elector was never the wiser, but even if he had been, he could
hardly have complained of disobedience."
(p.34) In summary, the Mafia-like closeness of the
Rothschild family, along with their tactic to situate themselves in all the major capitals, along with
their own quick secret personal news/intelligence/mail
service gave them the contacts and the power
to manipulate all kinds of business opportunities.
1. Lord Rothschild.
The Shadow of a Great Man. London: 1982, p.6.
