>>512105378 (OP)>He and his brother served as officers in a cavalry regiment—the Anciens 11èmes Cuirassiers—when Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. Both were captured by the Nazis close to the Belgian border during World War II. Élie was taken to the prisoner of war camp Oflag X-B at Nienberg near Hamburg. After being discovered planning to escape, he was taken to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, then to Oflag X-C at Lübeck, one of the toughest POW camps. There, he was reunited with his brother. Despite being persons of Jewish descent, both were treated by the Wehrmacht as captured officers. He was released in early 1944. Elie later recounted that, despite the harsh condition of the prison, he had been treated well and respectfully throughout.>While in Colditz, Élie had written to his childhood sweetheart Baroness Liliane Fould-Springer and asked her to marry him, which they did by proxy by 1942—Élie being allowed to take his marriage vows while imprisoned. Her mother thought her foolish to take on the Rothschild name with the Nazis in control of France. However, they were not troubled during the Nazi occupation.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élie_de_Rothschild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Rothschild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Rothschild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Nathaniel_de_Rothschild
So he had allied PoWs who had escaped from Stalag Luft III hunted down and executed but captured Rothschilds were treated as officers and held in luxury hotels? Wow so based...