Books written by Richard Breitman

American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945

Memo to Watson and President , December 1 , 1941 ; Early to Welles , December 4 , 1941 ; Welles to Early , December 11 , 194z , President's Secretary's file : Confidential file , State ...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

27. See discussion in Breitman and Lichtman, FDR and the Jews, 205– 212. 28. Herbert, Best, 354–359; Bo Lidegaard, Countrymen, trans. Robert Maass (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), 40–45. 29. Herbert, Best, 362–365.
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew

1943, with attached analysis by Rathbone, 12 Feb. 1943, titled, "The Nazi Massacres of Jews and Poles, What Rescue Measures Are Practically Possible?" PRO FO 371/36653 (W3321/49/49). 69. Richard Law Memorandum of Conversation with ...
FDR and the Jews

Molly Dewson, “Women and the New Deal,” 8 April 1936, in Richard D. Polenberg, 7be Era ofFranklin D. Roosevelt, 193341945: A BriefHistory witb Documents (New York: Palgrave, 2000), 99—100. 30. Selig Adler, “The Palestine Question in the ...
Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War

32 In a bitter meeting of February 1951 Franke-Gricksch accused Beck-Broichsitter of spying on the Bruderschaft for the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), West Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Beck-Broichsitter resigned from ...
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate- short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless.
FDR and the Jews

FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.
Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U. S. Intelligence, and the Cold War

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FDR and the Jews

In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew

threats against Jews with efforts to preserve the secrecy of the Final Solution. Outbursts of official anti-Semitic rhetoric had some practical purposes: they helped to rally the Party faithful into action and preserve a sense of ...
Sports Life

Sports Life
Breaking the Silence

Through unparalleled historical detective work, noted scholars Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman reveal the inspiring tale of Eduard Schulte, the Breslau business leader who risked his life to gather information...
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned...
Breaking the Silence

"The story of Eduard Schulte, the German industrialist who risked everything to oppose the Nazis and was the first to tell the world of the fate of the Jews in...
German Socialism and Weimar Democracy

In this first analysis in English of the relationship of the German Social Democratic party to the Weimar Republic, Breitman stresses the party's conflicting loyalties to both Marxist traditions and...