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G E R M A N Y M U S T P E R I S H ! GGRmHIIY I I I U S T PGRISH! By THEODORE N. KAUFMAN All rights reserved. No part of the original text of this book, nor the map therein, may be reproducedin any formWithout written permis‑ sion of the author. Copyright, 1941, BY THEODORE N. KAUFMAN Llama? I H E BarthwestTexan fife-“fie ‘UnLe.shy m Printed in the United States of America To all those men and women who would rather die fighting for freedom, than remain alive asslaves; To all those men and women who, unafraid, speak out the truth asthey conceive it to be thetruth; To all those men and women who, inspired by the efiorts,hopesandaspirationsof mankind place its needs before their own; This book isbdhibljfiielfiafiéi! _.. ' _ r ' . " ' | | ' " SPECIAL NOTE TO READER GERMANY MUST PERISH presents a plan for the structure of a permanent and lasting peace among civilized nations. It bases its thesis onthe eventualdefeat of Germany by theBritish Empire and its Allies, Without the assistance of the UnitedStates. However should circumstances decree that theAmericanpubliccast itsballotin favor of war asa measure of self-defense (and it is the fer‑ vent prayer of the author that this may never happen) it would become paramount that the lives of our native sons not be sacrificed in vain aswere their fathers’ lives a generation ago. If our soldiers must go forth to kill or die in battle, at least let them begiven not alone a Slogan but a Solemn Purpose and a Sacred Promise. Let that Purpose beanEnduringPeace! And, this time, that Promisemust be kept! f. ”Loaf 5413 fio-oé Today’s War is not a war against Adolf Hitler. Nor is it aWar against the Nazis. It is a war of peoples against peoples; of civilized peoples envisioning Light, against un‑ civilizable barbarians who cherish Darkness. Of the peoples of those nations who would surge forward hopefully into a new and better phase of life, pitted against the peoples of a nation who would travel backward enthusiasti‑ cally into the dark ages. It is a struggle between the German nation and humanity. _ _ 1 _ Hitler is no more to be blamed for this German war than was the Kaiser for the lastone. Nor Bismarck before the Kaiser. These mendid not originate or wage Germany’swars against the world. They were merely the mirrors reflecting centuriesaold inbred lust of the German nation for conquest and mass murder. This war is being waged by the German People. It is they who are responsible. It is they who must be made to pay for the war. Otherwise, there will always be a German war against the world. And with such a sword for‑ ever hanging overhead the civiliZed nations of the world, nomatter how great their hopes,how strenuous their efforts, will never succeed in creating that firm and solid foundation of per‑ manent peace which they must first establish if ever they intend to start the building of abetter world. Fornotonly must there beno more German Wars in fact; there must not even remain the slightest possibility of one ever again occurring. A final belt to German aggression, not a tem‑ porary cessation, must be the goal of the pres‑ ent struggle. _ 2 _ = This does not mean an armed mastery over Germany, or apeace with political or territorial adjustments, or ahope based on a defeated and repentant nation. Such settlements are not suf‑ ficiently cenclusive guarantees of nom o r e German aggressions. This time Germany has forced a TOTAL WAR upon the world. As a result, she must be prepared to pay a TOTAL PENALTY. And there isone, and only one, such Total Penalty: Germany must perish forever! In fact‐not in fancy! =f~=f-={-¥-=l‑ Daily the truth is being impressed upon us by observation, and upon others less fortunate by bombs, that the German doctrine of force isnot one based upon either political expediency or economic necessity. The personal war-luSt J of those who lead the German people is but a component part of the War-lust which exists as _ 3 _ a whole in the German masses. German leaders are n o t isolated from the Will of the German people because apart from this will they could not come into beingor existat all. The personal inspiration,themotivation, eventhe acquiescence to their deeds are one and all drawn by German leaders from the very depths of the German national soul. Far too often the claim has been made that the present German drive toward world-domin‑ ion is only street gangsterism pracrieed on an organized national scale, deriving principally from the lowest classes, the dregs of Germany. Such a claim is not sustained by facrs, for the same lust, the same brute force which the Ger‑ mans display today undertheruleof the so-called “low class Nazis,” they also displayed in 1914, at atime whenthe “highest classes” and the“noblest specimens” capable of being produced by the German nation, the Junkers, ruled that land. And a number of Germany’s intellectuals, Vast another German “high-class," sat asmembers in the GermanReichstag! No! The problem of Germanism must net again be passed along to the next generation, . . . _ 4 _ 1 The world must never again be stretched and tortured on the German rack. Ours isthe prob‑ lem; ours the solution. The world has learned, with a knowledge born of tragedies too numer‑ ous, too horrible to reenrd, that regardless of what leader or class rules Germany war will be waged against it by that country, because the force which compels it to actionisaninseparable part of the mass‐soul of that nation. True that soul,at one time, might have been otherwise fashioned. But that time wasin the civilizingcycleof a thousand years ago. Now it is too late. We know that. Our menof 1917 did not. They had no precedent on which to base their experience. We have not that excuse today. Their futile sacrifices and their empty efforts must todayr dictateour o W nactionsand decisions. We are paying today for the lack of ex‑ perience of the last generation in dealing with the peoples of the German nation. When and if the time comes for us to take similar decision‑ and action we must not repeat their mistake. The cost is far too great; not alone for us, but for all future generations. .....5._....