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contentedly in eternity, for there is no longer any such thing as Prussia.'" The mother and her children subsequently acquired French nationality.

In 1880 Adolf Stoecker, the court preacher, founded the Christian Social Party, but in 1890 he was compelled to leave his position and resign his office. Georg von Schonerer likewise worked energetically in Austria. His great influence caught the attention of the young Hitler, who placed this question at the forefront of the points for struggle.

After the war, the Jews in Germany attained a position that the Jews of Spain had not reached before they were persecuted.

The Jews in German society

Although the Jews lived among the German people with their own particular traditions and without social ties joining them to the people, they succeeded in a short period in assuming a powerful position in both Germany and Austria.

In 1800 Jewish women opened magnificent literary "salons" in Berlin and Vienna. Many writers, politicians, nobles and princes attended and encountered various forms of enticement intended to make them frequent the salons. Banks likewise multiplied during the Napoleonic Wars, and the Rothschild family in Frankfurt