Editing Rothschild family (section)

=== Austrian branch ===
{{Main|Rothschild banking family of Austria}}
[[File:GuentherZ 0028 Wien04 Palais Freiherr Albert von Rothschild Heugasse26 Gartenseite.jpg|thumb|left|[[Palais Albert Rothschild|Palace of Baron Albert von Rothschild]] in Vienna.]]
In [[Vienna]], [[Salomon Mayer Rothschild]] established a bank in the 1820s and the Austrian family had vast wealth and position.<ref>Thomas Trenkler. ''Der Fall Rothschild: Chronik einer Enteignung''. Czernin Verlag, Vienna. 1999. {{ISBN|3-85485-026-3}}</ref> The crash of 1929 brought problems, and [[Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild|Baron Louis von Schwartz Rothschild]] attempted to shore up the [[Creditanstalt]], Austria's largest bank, to prevent its collapse. Nevertheless, during the [[Second World War]] they had to surrender their bank to the [[Nazis]] and flee the country. Their [[Palais Rothschild|Rothschild palaces]], a collection of vast palaces in Vienna built and owned by the family, were confiscated, plundered and destroyed by the Nazis. The palaces were famous for their sheer size and for their huge collections of paintings, [[armour]], [[tapestries]] and [[statues]] (some of which were restored to the Rothschilds by the Austrian government in 1999).

All family members escaped the [[Holocaust]], some of them moving to the United States, and returning to Europe only after the war. In 1999, the government of Austria agreed to return to the Rothschild family some 250 art treasures looted by the Nazis and absorbed into state museums after the war.<ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Vogel
 |first        = Carol
 |title        = Austrian Rothschilds Decide to Sell; Sotheby's in London Will Auction $40 Million in Art Seized by Nazis
 |url          = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/10/arts/austrian-rothschilds-decide-sell-sotheby-s-london-will-auction-40-million-art.html
 |access-date  = 1 June 2013
 |newspaper    = New York Times
 |date         = 10 April 1999
 |archive-date = 8 March 2021
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