Rothschild
person \ rōt SHild \
: a wealthy Jewish family whose banking business dates back to the 18th century Holy Roman Empire
WHEN IT’S ANTISEMITIC:
The Rothschilds are a Jewish banking family who have been accused of secretly controlling the economy, manipulating the weather, and profiting from wars. “Rothschild” has become a generic term for greedy and manipulative Jewish billionaires (see Jewish figures, greed).
In the mid-19th century, French antisemite Georges Dairnvaell, under the pseudonym “Satan,” published a pamphlet alleging Nathan Rothschild witnessed France’s defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and returned to London before the news broke to make 20 million francs on the stock exchange. All of this was false. Rothschild was not at Waterloo (or Belgium), nor did he profit from the battle. Despite being provably false, the Satan pamphlet was reprinted and translated into many languages. The Rothschild family (and by extension Jews) were blamed for economic crises and wars for the next 200 years.
Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, produced “Die Rothschilds Aktien auf Waterloo” in 1940 as part of Nazi Germany’s antisemitic propaganda campaign. Conspiracy theorists in Iraq recently blamed the Rothschilds for the COVID-19 pandemic. Louis Farrakhan’s speech, The Conspiracy of the International Bankers, claims the Rothschild banks are members of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which they are not.
The most malicious of conspiracies about the Rothschilds is that they orchestrated the Holocaust to gain sympathy for Jews in order to create the State of Israel (see Holocaust denial)
