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controlled German finance and that of the other kingdoms of Europe, Russia excepted. The Jewish financiers Ephraim and Itzig were bankers under Frederick the Great. The glitter of the gold belonging to those financial houses and salons blinded many German patriots, thereby expanding Jewish influence among them.

We explained above that Jewish women worked to establish connections with princes and nobles. If any woman exercised greater influence than Rahel Levin, it may have been Dorothea Mendelssohn. She played a dangerous role when she became the wife of the noble Friedrich von Schlegel in Vienna. Despite the short time that had elapsed since her entry into Christianity, she appeared as a delegate to the conference of Catholic propaganda. During Metternich's time many people frequented her salon, where harmful campaigns were allegedly devised against German Christian men directing and participating in German literature. Caprivi, Bismarck's successor, frequented the salons of the Jewish woman Frau von Lieben. The salon of the Jewish duchess von Turnberg attained great fame at the beginning of the Great War. Until the declaration of war, the Jewish salon remained one of the most important sources of politics.

It is said that Jews received advice from some of their shrewdest thinkers: they should use the power of their gold to extend their influence in every kingdom while resembling chess pieces that move across the board but retain their colors