Wikipedia and Google agree that arguably the richest Jewish family Austria in the 19th century surrendered their fortune to Nazi Germany in the 20th. I find myself wondering why. Did they put up a fight? Did they do a careful analysis of their chances and decide escape to the U.S. was their best option? I'm curious if there has been any statements from the Rothschild family, or historical speculation, as to how difficult a decision this was for them.
I asked a question about the Rothschilds losing assets to Nazi Germany to one of the historians here.
The answer I got was that they were diversified enough that losing their German assets didn't really hurt them much at all, and in the long run may actually have helped them.