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in <strong>the</strong> Diaspora, risking his life, and finally being <strong>to</strong>rtured <strong>to</strong><br />
death by crucifixion, nearly 1500 years before John Birch <strong>the</strong><br />
missionary-after whom <strong>the</strong> Birch society got its name-was<br />
<strong>to</strong>rtured by Communist Chinese.<br />
Nine years after <strong>the</strong> death of Mar Zutra II, Kavadh with <strong>the</strong><br />
aid of his favorite son Chosroes, implemented an edict of<br />
extermination against <strong>the</strong> Mazdakites. Mazdak himself was<br />
hanged, bringing <strong>to</strong> an end <strong>the</strong> Communist reign of terror.<br />
Kavadh's kingdom was now united and intact without threats<br />
from aspiring noblemen. Communism had served Kavadh well.<br />
While Frederick William did not rule an aspiring nobility, he<br />
was surrounded with independent neighboring German states,<br />
which at various times since <strong>the</strong>ir inception, had grown at <strong>the</strong><br />
expense of <strong>the</strong>ir neighbors or had diminished <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
neighbors' advantage. If Prussia could succeed in carving out<br />
a unified German republic by stepping in as a conqueror of her<br />
neighboring states <strong>to</strong> quell <strong>the</strong>ir internal strifes, it would be<br />
worth <strong>the</strong> risk.<br />
In any event, both Prussia under Frederick William, and<br />
Austria under Joseph II, played this political game, and were<br />
<strong>the</strong> principal stage upon which <strong>the</strong> Frankist elite practiced <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
machinations prior <strong>to</strong> he French Revolution, and it was in<br />
Berlin's Asiatic Brethren that <strong>the</strong> Itzig family reigned supreme.<br />
By just following <strong>the</strong> Itzig family alone one can trace through<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir marriages and social circles most of <strong>the</strong> llluminati-<br />
Frankist political intrigues of <strong>the</strong> late eighteenth and early<br />
nineteenth centuries.<br />
Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750-1806) was <strong>the</strong> son of Daniel Jaffe<br />
(1723-1799). 159 In addition <strong>to</strong> being distinguished bankers, <strong>the</strong><br />
Itzigs were purveyors of silver <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Prussian mint.<br />
Daniel, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r with banker-merchant H. Ephraim (1703-<br />
1753), during <strong>the</strong> Seven-Year War, issued debased coinage,<br />
which not only contributed <strong>to</strong> inflation, but helped <strong>the</strong> Prussian<br />
government fight <strong>the</strong> war. Ephraim never lived <strong>to</strong> see his<br />
grandson David (1762-1834) who fur<strong>the</strong>r cemented <strong>the</strong><br />
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