During World War I , Mittwoch was the head of the German Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient from 1916 until 1918 . After the agency initially employed people who advocated Jihad and violence against the Western powers , Mittwoch hired more liberal and cosmopolitan writers and intellectuals for the Nachrichtenstelle such as the Swiss Max Rudolf Kaufmann ( Mittwoch hired him for the Nachrichtenstelle , after he arrested , briefly imprisoned and deported from Turkey because Turkish intelligence had found letter of Kaufmann criticizing German-Turkish militarism and jingoism ) , the Social Democrat Friedrich Schrader and the Zionist Nahum Goldmann . Schrader and Kaufmann were correspondents for the Jewish-owned liberal Frankfurter Zeitung and close associates of , one of the sharpest critics of German collaboration with the genocidal politics of the Young Turks
genocidal politics
Armenian Genocide
Eugen Mittwoch