Ill never understand why these conspiracy theorist and anti semites use the rothchilds and these other old german jewish families as proof of a illuminati or whatever. The rothschild banking dynasty for example came about because back in the day europeans were not allowed to engage in usury or money lending because the bible forbid it however the jewish people did not have this rule hence german nobility started appointing what they would call court jews who could handle their financial transactions and borrow money and so forth. This was then became a wide spread practice not because jewish people manipulated the system but because of prohibitions the european people put upon themselves. Obviously this made these families very wealthy and powerful because they were the bankers for alot of europes nobility . The rothchilds then also took on the practice that many royal families had of inter marriage which meant that much of their wealth stayed within the family. Its not an evil conspiracy that this aristocratic family has many of its descendants involved in high level banking and other influential positions thats just the way aristocracy works.