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Theodore Newman Kaufman (February 22, 1910 – April 1, 1986), sometimes given incorrectly as Theodore Nathan Kaufmann, was an American Jewish businessman and writer known for his eliminationist views on Germans. In 1939, he published pamphlets as chairman of the American Federation of Peace that argued that America should not fight in foreign wars.〔〔 In 1941, he wrote and published ''Germany Must Perish!'' which called for the sterilization of the German people and the distribution of the German lands. The text was used extensively in Nazi propaganda, often as a justification for the persecution of Jews and was specifically cited as a reason to round up the Jews of Hanover, Germany.〔 ==Early life== He was born in Manhattan, New York City on February 22, 1910 to Anton Kaufman and Fannie Newman. His parents had married on March 14, 1909. His father had been a reporter for the ''Berliner Morgen-Zeitung'' in Berlin, Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1905. Theodore's three brothers were Herbert, Julian, and Leonard. He attended South Side High School in Newark, New Jersey and graduated around 1928. In 1934 he was arrested along with his father, Anton Kaufman, for the robbery of Sandor Alexander Balint of Budapest. Balint had developed a process to speed the aging of wine. The Kaufmans had purchased this formula from Balint, but later came to believe that the formula was "worthless". Theodore Kaufman's mother died in 1939.〔 Kaufman traveled to the Sahara Desert and wrote: "you look at the horizon all day long and feel that you are staring at eternity." In Biskra he met Clare Sheridan. Kaufman became the owner of a small advertising agency and ticket agency in South Orange, New Jersey.〔 He published the ''New Jersey Legal Record''.〔 Kaufman founded the Argyle Press of Newark, New Jersey to publish his political pamphlets.〔 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「Theodore N. Kaufman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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