Robin Wigglesworth

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1,983 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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The Story of Money · How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And then they also had to, humiliation upon humiliation, pay a massive indemnity to Germany for having lost the war that Germany tricked them into starting, essentially, right?

Exactly.

I mean, you mentioned Otto von Bismarck.

He's obviously a huge figure in German politics and European and really in the world.

Can you tell me

Sounds like a very bad mix of things.

I have some sympathy with the eating and drinking to excess, and nobody's going to make me leave Germany that way.

to... Against France in 1871, right?

leave it permanently weakened.

So ensuring German or the new unified German state.

Also, amazingly, it was announced in Versailles right after the war, the unification of Germany to make that the dominant power, the undisputed dominant power on continental Europe of the era.

OK, so this Gershon von Bleikrode, he's obviously an important character that we're going to be hearing a lot about because he's kind of the unfortunate, crucial figure in terms of the rise of anti-Semitism that happens after this boom ends, as most booms do.

And he was Bismarck's basically personal banker, right?

He was a guy that helped come up with a number for the indemnity that France had to pay, the war reparations that France had to pay Germany after the war as part of the peace settlement, essentially, right?

Yes.

That's pretty impressive, going in within two generations from being a gravedigger to being essentially the personal banker to the most powerful man in Europe, one of the most powerful people in history.

He must have been an incredibly clever man as well.

does

Wow.

But that's still, I mean, okay, so it's not the 6 billion that they could have had floated out there as well, but it's still an enormous sum for the era.

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