Bidspirit auction | (HOLOCAUST). THEODORE N. KAUFMAN. Germany

(HOLOCAUST). THEODORE N. KAUFMAN. Germany Must Perish! FIRST EDITION. With folding map “Showing Possible Dissection of Germany and Apportionment of Its Territory.” pp. (8), 104. Original boards. 8vo. Newark, New Jersey, Argyle Press, 1941. This controversial self-published book advocated world peace only via the sterilization of all Germans and the territorial dismemberment of Germany. In an interview published in The Canadian Jewish Chronicle (September 26, 1941) the author Theodore N. Kaufman claimed: “How can you get peace if Germany exists? The only way to win an eternal peace is to make the punishment of waging war more horrible than war itself. Human beings are penalized for murder, aren't they? Well, Germany starts all the wars of magnitude. Let us sterilize all Germans and wars of world domination will come to an end!” The book became a central strategic point of reference for propagandist Joseph Goebbels who frequently referenced it to support the Nazi argument that World Jewry was plotting to dismember Germany. Indeed, Kaufman was falsely said to have been a close associate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and that Roosevelt himself had composed some of Kaufman’s writings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_N._Kaufman. A RELATED ESSAY, AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.