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''Germany Must Perish!'' is a 104-page book written by Theodore Newman Kaufman, and self-published by him in 1941. The book advocated the genocide through sterilization of all Germans and the territorial dismemberment of Germany. Kaufman founded the Argyle Press in Newark, New Jersey, United States, in order to self-publish this book. He was the sole proprietor of the Argyle Press and it is not known to have published any other works. The National Socialist German Workers Party used the book, written by a Jewish author, to support their argument that Jews were plotting against their country. ==Reactions to ''Germany Must Perish''== Though written and self-published by a non-notable author, the book received considerable attention. ''Time'' magazine published a review on March 24, 1941, that compared the book to Jonathan Swift's ''A Modest Proposal'' (1792), a stinging satire that proposed the cannibalistic consumption of poor Irish children, but ''Time''s contributors recognized that Kaufman's work was not satirical. It characterizes the work as the "enshrinement of a single sensational idea." "Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace," it was in ''Time's'' view a modest proposal that "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." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/k/kaufman.theodore.nathan/press/time-review-perish-194103 )〕 According to one study, reviews in the United States "reflected an odd combination of straight reporting and skepticism."〔Berel Lang, ''Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence'', University Press of New England: 2009), pp. 130–131〕 Kaufman's second and more moderate pamphlet, "No More German Wars" published in 1942, was ignored both in the U.S. and in Germany.〔Lang, ''Philosophical Witnessing'', 135〕 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.〔Anonymous. Advertisement for ''Germany Must Perish!''. ''New York Times''. March 1, 1941. p. 13.〕 Inside the coffin was a card proclaiming, ''"Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy."''〔 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.''〔"Latest Books Received." ''New York Times''. March 16, 1941. p. BR29.〕 In 1945, a Jewish journalist wrote that he claimed the book was intended to be "little more than self-indulgence in dire vituperation by a man who sees Germany as the sole cause of the world's woes."〔Donald F. Lach, "What They Would Do about Germany", Journal of Modern History'', Vol. 17, No. 3. (September 1945), 227-243〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Germany Must Perish!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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