Starting in 1933 , Mittwoch used his " privileged " position in Germany ( he continued to receive his salary as a German professor until the beginning of the war ) on behalf of the Jewish community , he became head of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin . However , in 1938 , after Kristallnacht , also Mittwoch had to emigrate , and moved via Paris 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 Jaeckh
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Eugen Mittwoch