ABSTRACT
Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Max von Oppenheim submitted his famous Jihad memorandum about enlisting pan-Islamism in the struggle against Britain. However, if Oppenheim is still remembered today, it is not because of his excavations and his ethnographic studies but as a promoter, albeit not very successful in jihad, and this is also the main topic of Gossman's biography. Oppenheim had not only India in mind but also the Arab Peninsula. Max Oppenheim was by no means a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi, though he was not critical of the new regime either. His post-1945 denigration of the Nazi regime was quite dishonest, but this was a fairly frequent phenomenon in Germany. Guenter Holzmann was probably the closest approximation to the "Oppenheim context". But his story did not end there. He went on to Cambridge to study mineralogy and geology.
