Eugen Mittwoch 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. In the 1920s
Eight-day week a day. Further, they also counted the ending night period, giving rise to periods of time with more nights than days. In Irish, the term "nómad" is used to signify a small number of days and is exactly the length of the nine night week as in "co cend nomaide" - a period of time with nine nights bracketing eight days. The nine nights divided nicely into a sidereal month of 27 nights. In Welsh a similar word "wythnos" meaning "a week" literally means "an eight-night" since it started and ended with a period of night bracketing seven days. Similarly