 The Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier celebrated Pastorius' lifeand particularly his anti-slavery advocacyin Whittier also translated the Latin ode addressed to posterity, which Pastorius prefixed to his Germantown book of records.Despite the Quaker sympathies of Pastorius, his name was appropriated in 1942 by the "Abwehr" of Nazi Germany for "Operation Pastorius," a failed sabotage attack on the United States during World War II that included a target in Philadelphia.For generations Pastorius has won the affections of historians.