 In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, he submitted an "Exposé on the Synchronization of German and Jewish Interests in the World War" to German military headquarters in Cologne.He set out his vision to Count Hutten-Czapski of the General Staff, chief of sabotage operations on the eastern front.With support from the General Staff and the Wilhelmstrasse, he established the German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews, together with 6 German Zionist colleagues, on 17 August 1914.