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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

The idea that Random House is going to enrich itself by publishing an academic biography of Joseph Goebbels seems to me something out of Mel Brooks.

Perhaps already mentioned, this is from Germany's state broadcaster:

Cordula Schacht reportedly refused an offer of royalties from the biography on condition they be paid to a Holocaust charity.

If Random House refuses to pay the Royalties they agreed to pay and in effect pockets them, they will of course be better off than they would have been if they honoured the agreement they made. If only Random House chose to follow Cordula Schacht's good example to the extent of at least undertaking to pay the Royalties to a charity, Holocaust or other.