Frederik Bosch
Frederik Bosch

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Nahum Goldmann, father of Guido, was a founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president. He was also president of the World Zionist Organization.
In 1916–18, Goldmann worked for the German Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient, an intelligence and propaganda bureau.
The Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient was a German intelligence organisation dedicated to promoting and sustaining subversive and nationalist agitations in the British Indian Empire and the Persian and Egyptian satellite states.
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Attached to the German Foreign Office, it was headed by archaeologist Von Oppenheim.
Oppenheim was replaced in 1916 by Eugen Mittwoch, internationally the most respected and prestigious German orientalist.
Mittwoch recruited more liberal and cosmopolitan people like Goldmann.
In 1916, when Goldmann started working for the Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient under Mittwoch, the Arbeitsausschus für Mitteleuropa was created by Ernst Jäckh.
Jäckh also worked for Mittwoch and his Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient.
Jäckh “was born in Urach Germany. During the First World War, Jaeckh was one of the main propagandists of the German-Turkish alliance and worked for Eugen Mittwoch[1] and his Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient[2]”
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“Another index to the phenomenal growth of German interest in the Near East was provided by the second annual report of Jäckh’s German-Turkish Union in Berlin, presented by its vice-president, Hjalmar Schacht in March of 1916.”
“In quite another direction he recognized the potentialities and importance of political Zionism for Germany and tried, with little success, to create an appreciation of this factor at the Wilhelmstrasse.”
“daneben ging er einer diplomatischen Tätigkeit für Großbritannien nach. In London leitete er die Nahostabteilung des Britischen Informationsministeriums, ein Mitarbeiter von ihm war Eugen Mittwoch” 🧐
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After the Kristallnacht, Mittwoch moved to London with his immediate family.
“During the last 18 months of his life, he worked for the Middle East department of the British Ministry of Information under the leadership of Ernst Jäckh.”
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