 The day before the Anschluss, Louis's brother Alphons and his wife were visiting him in Switzerland, wanting to go back into Austria; he persuaded them to remain there, and to get his children Francesca de Rothschild and Heidi de Rothschild away from Austria to Netherlands.Finally allowed to leave Austria, Louis survived the Holocaust and Second World War.All of the Rothschild possessions were plundered and subsequently "Aryanised".