Table of Contents
I. FAMILY BACKGROUND, DIPLOMATIC CAREER, ROLE IN WORLD WAR I
3. Attaché in Cairo. “The Kaiser’s Spy”
5. Oppenheim’s 1914 Denkschrift
6. Promoter of German Economic Expansion and the Berlin-Baghdad Railway
II. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST: TELL HALAF
7. Discovery and Excavation, Publications and Critical Reception
8. Financial Difficulties. The Fate of the Tell Halaf Finds
III. “THE KAISER’S SPY” UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM. “LEBEN IM NS-STAAT”
10. The Oppenheims and their Bank under National Socialism
12. Max von Oppenheim, “Half-Jew,” during the National Socialist Regime
Oppenheim and the Race Question
13. Plotting for Nazi Germany. Oppenheim’s Role in the Middle East Policy of the Third Reich
14. Max von Oppenheim’s Last Years
16. Some Individuals: Schoeps, Pevsner, Kantorowicz, Landmann