High res pic I took six years ago: 
The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!
The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits
High res pic I took six years ago:
The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!
The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits
Likely because “kaputt” translates to “kaput” in English, and depending on your region you may have heard something like “My computer went kaput” or “my car is kaput”. Usually means the thing is non-functional; so broken, dead, etc.
Don’t you think that just comes directly from the german word? Like how I’ve found ‘no problemo’ to work in pretty much any language I didn’t speak.
Oh yes definitely. I’m not a linguist (just a fan), but I’d assume the English “kaput” was what happened as German immigrants naturalized in English-speaking countries.
That is definitely it, my great grandparents loved that word