War era wealth seized from German and Austrian wives
Mitchell Palmer seized American estates of 29 women who married Germans or Austrians, totaling 21 667 500 dollars. The article argues titles and royal ties have collapsed and notes the social and financial losses endured by these women during wartime.
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Flanders
America
Germany
Mitchell Palmer
Countess Vanderbilt Story Shows War Era Marital Schemes
A 1918 feature traces Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Sezhenyi and a circle of titled foreigners who married for wealth amid wartime upheaval. It notes immense holdings abroad, Austrian property seizures, and how American fortunes funded social ambition and wartime debt, with multiple named countesses and baronesses tied to U.S. patrimony.
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Gladys Vanderbilt Sezhenyi
America
Budapest
Sezhenyi Place
Countess Sezhenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
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Danube
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Lusitania
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Harriet Sigray
Marcus Daly
Olivia Louise von Rothkirch
Olive Louise Brown
William John Brown
Mathilda L. Bornemieza
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Margaret von Wuch
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Anna von Dory Johahaza
James Price
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Samuel Harlan
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Alphonse de Steurs
Holland
France
Henry Astor
John Jaco Astor
Margaret Laura Zborowski
Alida Astor
William Astor
Cornelia C. Zeidlitz
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Cornelia Carnachan Roosevelt
Charlies Y. Roosevelt
Baron Clemens Zeldlitz
von Francken Sierstorff
Zyrowa Leschnitz
Prussia
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Edwin F. Knowlton
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Hans Clemens Herman Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Casper Alexander Maria Sierstorpf
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Alice von Bergen
Anthony von Bergen
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