>>11474992
yes, the town is full of stories.
eg, research the origins of Reuters News there. It was a quirk of diplomacy that finance/commodity prices, telegraphed between london and frankfurt, stopped outside Aachen in Belgium. There was no telegraph line across the border, it was a comms gap, and Reuters had to horseback it the short distance and cashed in front running prices to the big members of "The Club". Reuters was jewish but pretended to be gentile and tried to class up his family to the top echelons. He was involved in the trans-atlantic telegraphic news of financials betwen NYC and London. Again he set up a frontrunning racket - his rowboat would hang around off shore of Ireland close to a telegraph station. As the big luxury liners passed eastward toward London the "news" was toseed overboard for retrieval and hurried off to his special clients. His son was very rich after all this but suicided in the early 20th Century in Germany after his engagement to the daughter of a german alpha family fell apart when they discovered he was jewish - and it came as a shock to the son as he had been brought up in the finest circles believing he was a christian/gentile and one of "the club". Old man Reuter had to resume company control when he was in his early '70s… a broken man. All his cheating backfired on him.