West Germans bought over one hundred thousand copies of Mao’s book of quotations in 1967. Three editions were sold, each bearing a distinct ideological imprint. Alongside the familiar, plastic-bound edition of the Beijing Foreign Languages Press was a paperback published by the left-liberal Fischer Press. Translated and edited by West German students of Sinology, the Fischer edition provided a scholarly perspective on the Cultural Revolution that was broadly sympathetic, signaling its orientation with a cover photograph of a young girl and an elderly woman in a benign moment of intergenerational communication. The third edition of Mao’s book of quotations, published by the anti-communist Marienburg Press, had the title The Mao Zedong Breviary: Catechism of 700 Million. The editor, Kurt C. Steinhaus, both tapped into and reinforced racialized anxiety in his introduction, warning of a “Far Eastern-Asiatic system endowed with an inborn collectivism striving uncompromisingly for world domination.” The publishers declared that their goal in releasing the book was to “show Mao in all his severity.” “It is necessary,” they said, “to give Germans and Europeans the creeps.”