Dr. Walter Rathenau, first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, who was assassinated in 1922 following intense anti-Jewish propaganda against him, read Zionist publications and literature although he was not a Zionist, his correspondence with Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, reveals.
The Rathenau-Herzl correspondence, published for the first time this week in the Congress edition of “Zion,” organ of the World Zionist Executive, reveals Dr. Rathenau’s interest in the Zionist movement and the attention he gave to developments concerning it.
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