Editing Germany Must Perish! (section)

===In Germany===
Kaufman was a Manhattan-born Jew and his advocacy of genocide attracted great attention in Germany.<ref name=rev/> The book was denounced in Germany as an "orgy of Jewish hatred", and it was seen as inspired by United States President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt's]] supposed polemical anti-German agitation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nazis Attack Roosevelt|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/07/24/87646724.pdf|access-date=September 27, 2014|work=New York Times|date=July 24, 1941}}</ref> American journalist [[Howard K. Smith]] was in Germany when ''Germany Must Perish!'' became known. He wrote:<ref>Howard K. Smith, ''Last Train from Berlin'' (London: Phoenix Pr., 1942), p. 134</ref>
{{quote|No man has ever done so irresponsible a disservice to the cause his nation is fighting and suffering for than Nathan Kaufman. 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 ...}}

In September 1941, [[Julius Streicher]] published an essay in ''[[Der Stürmer]]'' that called Kaufman's book "the crazy thinking of [an] insane Jewish brain". He quoted Kaufman at length and then commented: "By destroying the German people, the Jew wants to stop up the spring from which, since the beginning, the world has always found its creative blood, the source of all that is beautiful, good and noble."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Streicher|first1=Julius|title=The Battle with the Devil|url=https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ds15.htm|website=German Propaganda Archive|publisher=[[Calvin University]]|access-date=September 27, 2014}}</ref> [[Joseph Goebbels]] also gave a radio address from Berlin warning Germans of "plans 'for sterilization of our entire population under 60 years' of age".<ref name=Lombardo /> These concerns were echoed by [[Adolf Hitler]] himself after the US entered World War II; he claimed mass sterilization of German male youth was a "primary" American goal.<ref name=Lombardo />

When the Jews of [[Hanover]] were evicted on September 8, 1941, the local authorities cited Kaufman's book as one of the reasons.<ref name=NYT/> Kaufman responded:<ref>{{cite news|title=Hanover Jews Victims of Latest Oppression|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kxhlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vW4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1522,728722&dq=theodore+kaufman+newark&hl=en|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=September 9, 1941|access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Unknown Title|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/09/09/87665415.pdf|access-date=September 27, 2014|work=New York Times|date=September 9, 1941}}</ref>
{{quote|This is just a flimsy pretext for another of the innate cruelties of the German people ... I don't think it was my book that prompted this barbarity. They employed every possible German cruelty against the Jews long before my book was published.}}

The book appeared in many pieces of [[Nazism|Nazi]] propaganda. The ''[[Parole der Woche]]''{{'s}} weekly wall newspaper included it as evidence that the Allies' war aims included the destruction of Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/parolederwoche.htm|title=Parole der Woche|first=Randall|last=Bytwerk|website=research.calvin.edu}}</ref> The pamphlet "The War Goal of World Plutocracy" detailed the contents of the book, although with some omissions from the text that it quoted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/kriegsziel.htm|title=War Aims of World Plutocracy|first=Randall|last=Bytwerk|website=research.calvin.edu}}</ref> It was used in 1944 in a pamphlet, "Never!", which described Kaufman's importance:<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goitsch|first1=Heinrich|title=Never!|url=http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/niemals.htm|website=German Propaganda Archive|publisher=Calvin University|access-date=September 27, 2014}} The use of quotation marks for the last sentence of this quotation is unexplained.</ref>
{{quote|The Jewish president of the American Federation of Peace is no anonymous individual, no fanatic rejected by world Jewry, no mentally ill crackpot, but rather a leading and widely known Jewish personality in the United States. He belongs to the so-called Roosevelt Brain Trust, which provides intellectual and political education and advice to the American President. "It is therefore beyond question that his book and its demand that 'Germany must perish' corresponds to the official opinion of the leading circles of world plutocracy."}}

At his [[Nuremberg trial]], Julius Streicher cited Kaufman's book in his defense, claiming his anger at Jews was prompted by ''Germany Must Perish!''.<ref name=Lombardo /> The German philosopher and historian [[Ernst Nolte]] argues that the German reaction to ''Germany Must Perish!'' supports his contention that World War II was a genuine response to German fears of a worldwide Jewish plot.<ref>Nolte, Ernst "Between Myth and Revisionism", pages 17-38 from ''Aspects of the Third Reich'', edited by H.W. Koch (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1985), pp. 27-28</ref>