Hitler In 1941, Reves published I Paid Hitler (1941), by Fritz Thyssen, writing that he considered German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen to be "one of the men most responsible for the rise of Hitler and for the seeking of power by the National Socialists in Germany", and attributing Hitler's rise in part to the support of leading industrialists. According to historian Samuel W. Mitcham, the book I paid Hitler, which Reves published under the name Fritz Thyssen, is one of the most cited but most inaccurate sources on the relationship between high finance and Nazism. This book had actually been written by Reves (based on the stenographs of the interviews Thyssen and Reves had had in France in the spring of 1940) and only a small number of chapters had been reviewed and approved by Thyssen. Thyssen, who at the time of the book's release was a prisoner in Germany, had not consented to publication and had never seen the chapters relating to his financial dealings with the Nazi Party. S. W. Mitcham quotes historian Henry Ashby Turner, who compared the stenographies with the first state of the book and according to whom even the parts approved by Thyssen contain spurious and inaccurate assertions. Historian Wolfgang Koch, also quoted by S. W. Mitcham, shares Turner's view. Story of a Secret State In 1944, Reves was the publishing agent of Jan Karski's book Story of a Secret State. Reves forbade Karski any criticism of the USSR, arrogated the right to make the text more attractive and demanded half of the copyright. Anatomy of Peace His best known work, The Anatomy of Peace, which he wrote and published in 1945 while in New York, helped popularize the cause of world federalism. Reves argued for a federation of nations relinquishing to the federal authority only the powers to manage and regulate intergovernmental relationships, but still retaining sovereignty for each of the independent nations. The federation, most importantly, would have to have legislative powers to create international law. Reves argued that world law was the only way to prevent war and that the fledgling United Nations Security Council would be inadequate to preserve peace because it was an instrument of power, rather than an instrument of law. Likely his most widely read book, it sold more than 200,000 copies in England and was an American best-seller, in all selling an exceptional 800,000 copies in