Publishing and Propaganda
Theodore N. Kaufman was a 31-year-old Jewish-American owner of a theatrical ticket agency in Newark, N.J., who in March 1941 published at his own expense a 100-page book titled "Germany Must Perish!" It called for the sterilization of Germans and the partition of Germany, with its territory parceled out to neighboring states.
Anyone in the U.S. is free to publish a book, and everyone in the U.S. is free to ignore it, and that's what happened to Kaufman's "Germany Must Perish!" But in July 1941 the Nazis discovered it, and they loved it. They gave it major play in their propaganda press, claiming Kaufman was a close associate of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They made it the subject of a pamphlet in September 1941 that was printed in an edition of five million, according to Goebbels. Goebbels originally wanted to translate Kaufman's book into German, but he feared legal problems (the U.S. was still not in the war), and he worried that the U.S. might retaliate by stripping German works in the U.S. of copyright protection. A month after publication, the Nazis released a four-page flyer to remind Germans of Kaufman's plan.
Kaufman remained a mainstay of German propaganda during the war (above), his last major appearance coming in a late-1944 pamphlet titled "Never!," which collected all the Allied threats against Germany. Kaufman enjoyed the publicity, and he put out a paperback edition after the Nazi furor.
More on this historical footnote, and a full translation of the Nazi propaganda, can be found here.
Anyone in the U.S. is free to publish a book, and everyone in the U.S. is free to ignore it, and that's what happened to Kaufman's "Germany Must Perish!" But in July 1941 the Nazis discovered it, and they loved it. They gave it major play in their propaganda press, claiming Kaufman was a close associate of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They made it the subject of a pamphlet in September 1941 that was printed in an edition of five million, according to Goebbels. Goebbels originally wanted to translate Kaufman's book into German, but he feared legal problems (the U.S. was still not in the war), and he worried that the U.S. might retaliate by stripping German works in the U.S. of copyright protection. A month after publication, the Nazis released a four-page flyer to remind Germans of Kaufman's plan.
The Jewish president Kaufman is no anonymous loner, no fanatic rejected by World Jewry, no insane creature, but rather a leading and widely-known Jewish figure in the United States. He belongs to Roosevelt's so-called "Brain Trust," the staff of politicians who provide intellectual and political advice to the American president. This circle provides the material for the hate-filled speeches against National Socialist Germany that President Roosevelt likes to give. It is the center of activity for those warmongers who expanded the war into the Balkans in the spring of 1941. The half-Jewish mayor of New York La Guardia, along with Roosevelt's close confidante and friend Bernard Baruch (the "unofficial president" of the U.S.A.) also belong to this group, which maintains the closest ties to the leading men of the Soviet Union. They provide the impetus for the agitation for American military and material support for Bolshevism.
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Victory or Death — That is What This War is About
One must know this to know what this war is about. It is not a war of the past, which can find its end in a balancing of interests. It is a matter of who shall live in Europe in the future: the white race with its cultural values and creativity, with its industry and joy in life, or Jewish subhumanity ruling over the stupid, joyless enslaved masses doomed to death.
Kaufman remained a mainstay of German propaganda during the war (above), his last major appearance coming in a late-1944 pamphlet titled "Never!," which collected all the Allied threats against Germany. Kaufman enjoyed the publicity, and he put out a paperback edition after the Nazi furor.
More on this historical footnote, and a full translation of the Nazi propaganda, can be found here.
