"[...] About the year 1760 Mayer Amschel began business with the court of Hanau, aided by the acquaintance with General von Estorff. On the 21th of September 1769 he could put the badge bearing the arms of Hesse-Hanau, and the inscription "MA Rothschild, purveyor of His Illustrious Highness, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse, Count of Hanau" in front of his shop.

William of Hanau was a merchant of human flesh. For a price on the head of every fallen soldier, the Prince let his troops to another country. His best customer was the British government, which needed the troops for the war against the American colonists.

He earned exceptionally well with his "rent-a-troop-business". When he died, he left the largest fortune ever accumulated in Europe at that time, $200,000,000. Rothschild biographer Frederic Morton describes William as "Europe's most blue-cold blooded loan shark" (The Rothschilds, Fawcett Crest, 1961, p. 40).

Rothschild was a broker for these human cattle-dealer. He must have been working diligently in his new position because when William was forced to flee from Napoleon to Denmark, he left 600 000 pounds (then worth $3,000,000) with Rothschild for safekeeping.

Rothschild made plans for the creation of the Illuminati Order and entrusted Adam Weishaupt with the organization and development. Weishaupt was professor of canon law and practical philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt. Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), founded on 1 st May 1776 with two of his students the Federation of Perfectionist (from the Latin perfectibilis: capable to reach perfection). The Order existed officially only a short time because under the rulership of Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Illuminati and Freemasons were banned as traitorous and hostile to religion and their organizations forbidden. In house raids, several papers were seized of the Order, which provided evidence of its radical goals. An even tougher ban edict followed on the 16 th August, 1787, which placed the recruitment of members for Freemasons and Illuminati punishable by death! [...] For an account of what happened after the escape of Prince William, we look into the Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1905 edition, volume 10, p. 494:

According to legend, these [the 600,000 pounds] were hidden away in wine-casks, and, escaping the search of Napoleon's soldiers when they entered Frankfurt, were restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when the elector returned to his electorate (see Marbot, "Memoirs," 1891, i. 310-311). The facts are somewhat less romantic, and more businesslike. Rothschild, so far from being in danger, was on such good terms with Napoleon's nominee, Prince Dalberg that he had been made in 1810 a member of the Electoral College of Darmstadt. The elector's money had been sent to Nathan in London, who in 1808 utilized it to purchase £800,000 worth of gold from the East India Company, knowing that it would be needed for Wellington's peninsular campaign. He made no less than four profits on this: (1) on the sale of Wellington's paper, (2) on the sale of the gold to Wellington, (3) on its repurchase, and (4) on forwarding it to Portugal. This was the beginning of the great fortunes of the house.

Pay attention to the word "businesslike"! It is very meaningful! Here the leading Jewish authority states that what Rothschild actually did with the $3,000,000 was "more businesslike", from a Jewish point of view, than what was reported in the legend!

The simple truth is that Rothschild had embezzled the money! And even before that the money was not 'kosher', as this large sum was paid by the British government to William for the services of his soldiers and should have been paid as wages and to the widows and orphans. So it was blood money that was embezzled twice! With this money as a solid foundation, Mayer Amschel Rothschild decided to expand his operations considerably - and became the first international banker of modern times.

Pay also attention to the words "great fortune"! Yes, the Jewish Encyclopaedia describes it as "very fortunate" what was built on the basis of the "businesslike" method of fraud!

With the huge amount of illegal profits, the family established offices in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Naples: Amschel in the Berlin branch; Salomon in the Vienna branch; Jacob (James) went to Paris and Kalman (Charles) opened the Rothschild Bank in Naples. The headquarters of the House of Rothschild was in London and is still today.

An anonymous contemporary described Nathan Rothschild while he was leaning against the "Rothschild pillar" in the London Stock Exchange, the heavy hands in his pockets: "The eyes are usually called the windows to the soul. But in Rothschild's case you come to the conclusion, that the windows are a sham or that there is no soul to look out of them. There is not a spark of light coming from the inside." [...]" 

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