![]() ![]() His half-baked brochure provided the Nazis with one of the best light artillery pieces they have, for, used as the Nazis used it, it served to bolster up that terror which forces Germans who dislike the Nazis to support, fight and die to keep Nazism alive. No man has ever done so irresponsible a disservice to the cause his nation is fighting and suffering for than Nathan Kaufman. Smith was in Germany when Germany Must Perish! became known. Roosevelt's supposed polemical anti-German agitation. The book was denounced in Germany as an "orgy of Jewish hatred", and it was seen as inspired by United States President Franklin D. Kaufman was a Manhattan-born Jew and his advocacy of genocide attracted great attention in Germany. In 1945, a Jewish journalist wrote an article claiming that the book was "little more than self-indulgence in dire vituperation by a man who sees Germany as the sole cause of the world's woes". One blurb read: "A Plan For Permanent Peace Among Civilized Nations! - New York Times." The book's dust jacket contained excerpts from reviews of the book. Inside the coffin was a card proclaiming, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy." Kaufman also promoted the book by mailing a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid to reviewers. Īn advertisement in The New York Times stated that the book was released to the public on March 1, 1941. Kaufman's second and more moderate pamphlet, "No More German Wars" published in 1942, was by and large ignored in both the U.S. It is more humane to sterilize them." Īccording to one study, reviews in the United States "reflected an odd combination of straight reporting and skepticism". But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. "Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. ![]() However, the Time essay recognized that Kaufman's work was not satirical it described the book as the "enshrinement of a single sensational idea". Time magazine published a review in its 24 March issue that compared the book to Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal, which proposed reducing the population pressure in Ireland by the cannibalistic consumption of poor Irish infants. Reception In the United States Īlthough self-published, the book received considerable attention. ![]()
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