Theodore N. Kaufman
| Theodore Newman Kaufman | |
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Kaufman in 1941
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Theodore Newman Kaufman October 20, 1911 New York City, United States |
| Died | April 1, 1986 (aged 76) East Orange, New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Theodore Nathan Kaufmann |
| Occupation | Businessman and writer |
| Known for | Germany Must Perish! |
| Parent(s) | Anton Kaufman and Fannie Newman |
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 Americans should be sterilized so that their children will no longer have to 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.
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 blind 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.
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