Eugen Mittwoch Mittwoch was the leading orientalist in Germany, and the founder of a more politically oriented, modern science of Middle East Studies, in contrast to the traditional philologic, apolitical approach very much influenced by Goethe. In 1924, Mittwoch stayed in Jerusalem, where he participated in the founding of a Department for Semitic Studies at Hebrew University. Since he was the leading specialist on Ethiopian languages world-wide, Mittwoch did not lose his academic position in 1933 immediately like almost all his Jewish colleagues in Germany did at that time. This had to do with a special intervention by Mussolini with Hitler on
The Week (1933) term Cliveden set to describe what he alleged to be an upper-class pro-German group that exercised influence behind the scenes. "The Week" ceased publication shortly after the war began. Watt alleges that the information printed in "The Week" included rumours, some of which suited Moscow's interests. Watt used as an example the claim "The Week" made in February–March 1939 that German troops were concentrating in Klagenfurt for an invasion of Yugoslavia, which Watt says had no basis in reality. The Week (1933) The Week was a radical British newspaper from 1933 until 1941. Marxist journalist Claud Cockburn launched the first