"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" received much critical praise from Austrian and Swiss reviewers when the book, over 900 pages long, was published in two volumes in November 1933. For several years the novel could be read in Nazi Germany despite book burnings that included Werfel's previous titles and the increasing number of proscribed Jewish authors and their books. In February 1934, with strong pressure by the Turkish government in Ankara, "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was banned in the Third Reich. "Das Schwarze Korps", the official newspaper of the SS, painted Werfel as an agent who created the "alleged Turkish horrors perpetrated against the Armenians" and also denounced "America's Armenian Jews for promoting in the U.S.A. the sale of Werfel's book." Through a decree issued by Prime Minister İsmet İnönü in January 1935, the book was banned in Turkey. It was translated into Turkish and published in Turkey only in 1997, by Belge Publishing House under the name "Musa Dağ'da Kırk Gün".