The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
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Cover  
Contents  
Index  

Table of Contents

Dedication

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

Foreword

INTRODUCTION

I.   FAMILY BACKGROUND, DIPLOMATIC CAREER, ROLE IN WORLD WAR I

1. The Oppenheims

2. The Charm of the Orient

3. Attaché in Cairo. “The Kaiser’s Spy”

4. The Spectre of Pan-Islamism and Jihad. The Background of Oppenheim’s 1914 Denkschrift betreffend die Revolutionierung der islamischen Gebiete Unserer Feinde

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”

   9. Questions

   10. The Oppenheims and their Bank under National Socialism

   11. Waldemar and Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim, so-called “Quarter-Jews,” during the National Socialist Regime: Work for the Abwehr (German Counter-Intelligence) and Association with the Conservative “Widerstand” (German Resistance)

   12. Max von Oppenheim, “Half-Jew,” during the National Socialist Regime

   Oppenheim and the Race Question

   Support of the Regime

   13. Plotting for Nazi Germany. Oppenheim’s Role in the Middle East Policy of the Third Reich

   14. Max von Oppenheim’s Last Years

IV.   MAX VON OPPENHEIM’S RELATION TO NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN CONTEXT. SOME RESPONSES OF “NON-ARYAN” GERMANS TO NATIONAL SOCIALISM

   15. Two Jewish Organizations: the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews) and the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (Jewish War Veterans Association)

   16. Some Individuals: Schoeps, Pevsner, Kantorowicz, Landmann

   17. By Way of Conclusion

APPENDIX of originals and translations of passages quoted

INDEX OF NAMES