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Title: Newsman Howard K. Smith mentions this book prominently.
Review: In his own extraordinarily insightful 1942 book "Last Train From Berlin" the late Howard K. Smith wrote that the Nazis were overjoyed to have been handed the gift of American Jew Nathan Kaufman's diatribe, "Germany Must Perish." According to Smith, at first the Nazis merely sold Kaufman's pamphlet cheaply, but eventually distributed a copy to every German family with their ration card. Kaufman's book gave the Nazis a propaganda windfall and even another excuse for eliminating the Jews of Germany. Pointing to Kaufman's writing, the Nazi's message to the German people was a simple one: get them before they get you. Thus, I'm afraid Kaufman's book is an extremely unfortunate example of the "law of unintended consequences." Smith's book, by the way, is one of the few I've read that presents the war from inside Germany, and I certainly recommend it. I had never realized that the veteran and venerable newscaster was such an accomplished writer.
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