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Hello everyone. My name is Wesley Levesay from the History of the Second World War podcast. Join me on a journey

to the most destructive conflict in human history, a journey that will take us not just through

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Hello and welcome to History Tea Time. I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.

The Rothschilds Europe's Jewish banking dynasty.

As rich as a Rothschilded child was a common saying in the gilded age.

Their rags to rich's story reads like many other great modern financial dynasties,

a brilliant founder who forged a fortune and future generations who squandered it

on eccentricities. But the Rothschilds have a few interesting twists. The Patriarch's five sons

were sent across Europe to establish their own banking dynasties. They explicitly excluded their sisters and daughters from the business,

and inbred extensively to keep their wealth intact. Plus, the Rothschilds were uniquely vilified

because they were Jewish. They were targeted by the Nazis and saw their art, palaces, and cash

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