 The German Foreign Ministry lavished special "care" upon the efforts of both Fay and Barnes with generous use of the German archives, and in the case of Barnes, research funds provided by the German government.The German government liked Fay's "The Origin of the War" so much that it purchased hundreds of copies in various languages to hand out for free at German embassies and consulates.The German government allowed books that were pro-German in their interpretation, such as Barnes's "The Genesis of the World War", to be translated into German while books such as Bernadotte Schmitt's "The Coming of War 1914" that were critical of German actions in 1914, were not permitted to be published in Germany.