Quote from joshf731 on April 21, 2026, 07:51

Crypto-Judaism in Portugal and Jew banker financing & working with the Nazis - Ricardo Espírito Santo

Tribune Tuesday 4 September 1945

 

“During the Second World War, Nazi Germany's money and gold passed through, among other Portuguese banks, Banco ESPÍRITO SANTO. And the bank prospered greatly from the war. José António Barreiros, who investigated espionage networks in Portugal during those years, also states that the bank was used by the Germans to pay their agents.

Ricardo Espírito Santo had a very close, friendly relationship with the Nazi German ambassador in Lisbon, Baron Oswald von Hoyningen-Huene. They met before the war began and shared many interests. Ribbentrop also makes a reference to Ricardo Espírito Santo. He writes that "the Duke is living in the house of a Portuguese banker who is considered to be a friend of Germany."

paras 30,32, 37 & 41

https://web.archive.org/web/20240912181800/https://observador.pt/especiais/ricardo-espirito-santo-o-banqueiro-portugues-que-os-nazis-queriam-envolver-no-plano-para-recolocar-um-ex-rei-britanico-no-trono/

Espírito Santo family of Jewish origin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131496287

https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/austjewisherald/1940/09/19/01/article/45/?srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxTI--------------1

Ricardo Espírito Santo's wife:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Esp%C3%ADrito_Santo

Ricardo Espírito Santo was also a close friend of Salazar

António Salazar, Dictator of Portugal 1932-1968 was a crypto-Jew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar

“In 1976, American Air Force Captain Marvin Feldman, a Jewish believer based at Lajes Air Base on Terceira Island, reported in the magazine Herança Judaica, issue 26 of 1976, to columnist Aaron Zeff that he had purchased a Torah, a scroll containing the Hebrew Pentateuch, in a tavern for just five dollars, but had to hand it over to the authorities upon leaving the archipelago. He also found a cemetery with Hebrew inscriptions, but this is explained by the existence of a Moroccan-Jewish community in the Azores. He reported encountering a Marrano community, an active but clandestine Crypto-Jewish community. They claimed to practice Judaism secretly for fear of repression under Salazar's dictatorship. Little did they know that Salazar was of direct Jewish descent. His seventh grandmother, Catarina Salazar, a New Christian from Coimbra, lived on Rua Corpo de Deus, in the parish of São Tiago. On his paternal side, through the Andrades of Trancoso, he is suspected of Jewish descent and was also a New Christian through his paternal grandmother, a member of the Gaspar family from the town of Tábua.”

paragraph 16

https://judaismohumanista.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-diaspora-dos-anussim

Portuguese writer Mário Saa - regarding his book 'Invasion of the Jews', 1925.

"Only this (the first) volume came out because, in the second, Saa proved that Salazar was Jewish and they banned him, according to (historian) José Augusto França. (1)

Just to finish, (poet & writer) Fernando Pessoa, who wrote a CV in which he defined himself as half-Jewish, due to his Marrano ancestry, has an anti-Salazarist poem...where Professor Salazar is accused of being Jewish."

https://porabrantes.blogs.sapo.pt/o-empresario-judeu-de-alferrarede-1925-5612737

Salazar's Jewish friend who saved many other Jews.

"It was at an academic gathering in Lisbon that Salazar, a native of the Beira region, met Moisés Amzalak, a native of Lisbon. A lifelong friendship would blossom between the Catholic and the Jew."

https://dn.pt/arquivo/diario-de-noticias/o-amigo-judeu-de-salazar-que-salvou-muitos-outros-judeus-12304168.html

A magistrate and researcher at the University of Lisbon, Costa Pimenta, 53, argues that António Oliveira Salazar was a member of Freemasonry, like almost all prominent figures of the Estado Novo (Salazar's dictatorship).

"It is said that he was initiated into Revolta Lodge No. 336 in Coimbra in 1914, proposed by his Freemason friend, Bissaya Barreto. He also chose the codename Pombal (afther the Marquis of Pombal 1699-1782.) It is also said that he said he would like to be prime minister to an absolute king. Just like the Marquis of Pombal, who, despite being a Freemason, remained an "enlightened" despot."

https://prosimetron.blogspot.com/2009/04/uma-leitura-de-salazar-o-macon.html

Alfredo da Silva (1871–1942), the founder of the CUF industrial conglomerate, and Ricardo Espírito Santo (1900–1955), the banker of the Espírito Santo family, were pivotal professional counterparts in building the Portuguese private sector. 

Silva, often recognized as Portugal's most prominent industrialist of the 20th century, was also secretly Jewish.

"Alfredo da Silva who ran some 100 companies in various sectors"

para 1 https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/stories-about-people-biographies/biography/silva

"Alfredo da Silva, a New Christian, was a banker and one of Portugal's leading industrialists; he was a member of parliament and a supporter of radical political movements. He still maintains Jewish traditions."

second image

https://porabrantes.blogs.sapo.pt/o-empresario-judeu-de-alferrarede-1925-5612737