Introduction -- Part I. Family background, diplomatic career, role in World War 1 -- 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 -- Part II. The archaeologist: Tell Halaf -- 7. Discovery and Excavation, Publications and Critical Reception -- 8. Financial Difficulties. The Fate of the Tell Halaf Finds -- Part 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 -- (i) Oppenheim and the Race Question -- (ii) 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 -- Part 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.