The Archive · 1932

Rothschild Family Estate

Vienna, Oct. 3.

The entire estate of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family is threatened with confiscation in connection with the winding up of the affairs of the Austrian Credit Anstalt, the collapse of which Inst summer precipitated the financial] crisis of Europe.

Tt is asserted that the former president of that institute, Baron Louis Rothschild, is held respensible for the lopsided finance policy which caused the bank's col-false.

Under a decree issued to-day, Louis Rothschild, who but_ recently retired from public life and closed the Vienna branch of the. Toth child's undertakings, willie com led yo kramer the tile dead of failing that, take or anth that not {ng 1m left of the once vast. Rothsehtid fortune in'Austri Though the recent developments are said to have made a very heavy {nroad into that" fortune, it is. be-Heved that a considerable amount of aod

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