Jewish bankers switched government allegiances within hours of political revolutions

Evidence

It took the French Rothschilds in 1848 hardly twenty-four hours to transfer their services from the government of Louis Philippe to the new short-lived French Republic and again to Napoleon III. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 113

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 113
  • XREF: connects to: European states came to depend on Jewish financiers for government loans; Jewish banking ties to state loans turned class resentment into political antisemitism

Broader Connections