 The first – two centuries earlier – had been the influx of Calvinist refugees from the counter-reformation in the southern Netherlands, the third came after World War II when Germany's three biggest banks moved their headquarters to Frankfurt.Like snapshots, two quotes from Egon Caesar Conte Corti highlight the great strides made by the Rothschilds in a very short timespan.The first is a glimpse at the beginnings of the Rothschilds' rise.