Editing Germany Must Perish! (section)

===In the United States===
Although self-published, the book received considerable attention. [[Time (magazine)|''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. However, the ''Time'' essay recognized that Kaufman's work was not satirical; it described the book as the "enshrinement of a single sensational idea". "Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them."<ref name=rev>{{cite news|title=A Modest Proposal|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884346,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615031627/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884346,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2008|work=Time magazine|date=March 24, 1941|access-date=April 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Modest Proposal (review from ''Time'' magazine)|url=http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/k/kaufman.theodore.nathan/press/time-review-perish-194103|website=The Nizkor Project|access-date=September 27, 2014|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114111503/http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/k/kaufman.theodore.nathan/press/time-review-perish-194103|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to one study, reviews in the United States "reflected an odd combination of straight reporting and skepticism".<ref name=Lang>[[Berel Lang]], ''Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence'' ([[University Press of New England]]: 2009), pp. 130–131, 135</ref> Kaufman's second and more moderate pamphlet, "No More German Wars" published in 1942, was ignored in both the U.S. and Germany.<ref name=Lang/>

An advertisement in ''[[The New York Times]]'' stated that the book was released to the public on March 1, 1941. Kaufman also promoted the book by mailing a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid to reviewers.<ref>Anonymous. Advertisement for ''Germany Must Perish!''. ''New York Times''. March 1, 1941. p. 13</ref> Inside the coffin was a card proclaiming, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy."<ref name=rev/><ref name=Lombardo>{{cite book |last=Lombardo |first=Paul A. |author-link1=Paul A. Lombardo |date=2010 |title=Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell |location=Baltimore, MD |publisher=Johns Hopkins UP |pages=228, 236 |edition=paperback |isbn=978-0-8018-9824-2}}</ref>

The book's dust jacket contained excerpts from reviews of the book. One [[blurb]] read: "A Plan For Permanent Peace Among Civilized Nations! -- New York Times."<ref>"Latest Books Received." ''New York Times''. March 16, 1941. p. BR29</ref>

Kaufman's book was cited by a prominent Jewish-American trial lawyer, [[Louis Nizer]].<ref name=Nizer>{{cite book |last=Nizer |first=Louis |date=1944 |title=What To Do With Germany |url=https://archive.org/details/whattodowithgerm00nizerich |location=Chicago |publisher=Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. |pages=3–5, 205}}</ref> In his 1944 book ''What To Do With Germany'', Nizer accepted the collective punishment of Germans and considered, though ultimately rejected, their mass "eugenic sterilization".<ref name=Nizer />

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".<ref>[[Donald F. Lach]], "What They Would Do about Germany", ''[[Journal of Modern History]]'', Vol. 17, No. 3. (September 1945), pp. 227-243</ref>