THE BANK IN PERIL

Deutsche Bank was founded in Berlin in 1870 as a specialist in foreign trade

One early project was a railway linking Berlin to Baghdad

When Hitler came to power one of Deutsche Bank’s first moves was to sack its three Jewish board members

During World War Two it provided the loan used to build the Auschwitz concentration camp

In the 2000s the bank’s corporate security department spied on 20 people who had criticised the firm – including an activist investor

Last year Deutsche was fined £1.9bn for rigging Libor interest rates last year, then ordered to pay £200m for breaching US sanctions on Iran