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According to Wikipedia, Richard David Breitman, born in 1947, is an American historian best known for his study of the Holocaust. Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refugee policy, and intelligence during and after World War II. He has spent his career in the history department at American University in Washington, D.C., from which he retired as distinguished professor emeritus in 2015. He has written or co-authored twelve books and served for twenty-five years as editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a scholarly journal owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Breaking the Silence (2022) (367)
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (1991) (110)
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew (1998) (73)
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945. (1988) (65)
The End of the “Final Solution”?: Nazi Plans to Ransom Jews in 1944 (1992) (46)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis (2004) (26)
German Socialism And Weimar Democracy (1981) (23)
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. (1992) (19)
Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War (2010) (10)
The Allied War Effort and the Jews, 1942-1943 (1985) (6)
On German Social Democracy and General Schleicher 1932–33 (1976) (6)
HIMMLER, THE ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE (2002) (5)
Auschwitz and the Archives (1985) (5)
Hitler and Genghis Khan (1990) (5)
Roosevelt and the Holocaust (1996) (5)
A Deal with the Nazi Dictatorship?: Himmler's Alleged Peace Emissaries in Autumn 1943 (1995) (4)
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution . By Henry Friedlander. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1995. Pp. xxiii + 421. $34.95 ISBN 0-8078-2208-6. (1996) (3)
Muslim Anti-Semitism: Historical Background (2007) (3)
New Sources on the Holocaust in Italy (2002) (3)
Allied Knowledge of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943–1944 (1996) (3)
The Failure to Provide a Safe Haven for European Jewry (1996) (3)
Martin Lorenz-Meyer, Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad. (2008) (3)
Himmler and Bergen-Belsen (1996) (2)
Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise by A. James Rudin (review) (2017) (2)
Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941 (1994) (2)
The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933: From Ghetto to Government (1982) (2)
Negative Integration and Parliamentary Politics: Literature on German Social Democracy, 1890–1933 (1980) (2)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Manhunts: The Official Search for Notorious Nazis (2005) (2)
FDR and the Jews (2013) (2)
Breaking the silence : the secret mission of Eduard Schulte, who brought the world news of the Final Solution (1986) (2)
American Rescue Activities in Sweden (1993) (2)
Himmler and the 'Terrible Secret' among the Executioners (1991) (2)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Tracking the Red Orchestra: Allied Intelligence, Soviet Spies, Nazi Criminals (2005) (2)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Reinhard Gehlen and the United States (2005) (1)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Coddling a Nazi Turncoat (2005) (1)
Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad (review) (2008) (1)
Helping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide Rescue (2012) (1)
Other Responses to the Holocaust (2005) (1)
Mein Kampf and the Himmler Family: Two Generations React to Hitler's Ideas (1999) (1)
4 Immigration Wars (2013) (0)
7 Resettlement in Latin America (2013) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: OSS Knowledge of the Holocaust (2005) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Nazi Espionage: The Abwehr and SD Foreign Intelligence (2005) (0)
6 Moving Millions (2013) (0)
The Architect of Genocide (2022) (0)
Himmler and the 'Terrible Secret' among the (2016) (0)
[ON THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CORONARY INSUFFICIENCY]. (1964) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Nazi Collaborators in the United States: What the FBI Knew (2005) (0)
[EXPERIMENTAL STENOCARDIA IN DOGS AFTER OMENTOCARDIOPEXY]. (1963) (0)
Seeking Justice for the Holocaust: Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law (2021) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: The CIA and Eichmann's Associates (2005) (0)
[Case of strangulated embryonal hernia]. (1954) (0)
14 Negotiations and Rescue in Hungary (2013) (0)
Churchill observed that the German police troop executions in Russia surpassed anything since the Mongol invasions of Europe in the sixteenth century: 'There has never (since) been methodical, merciless butchery on such a scale, or approaching such a scale'.' (2016) (0)
Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds (2005) (0)
[THE COURSE OF BURNS IN THE USE OF POLYCHLORVINYL FILM DRESSINGS]. (1964) (0)
Gerard Braunthal, Socialist Labor and Politics in Weimar Germany: The General Federation of German Trade Unions . Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978. 253 pp. (1979) (0)
3 The Democrat and the Dictator (2013) (0)
[Concretion in the skin mass of the scrotum]. (1967) (0)
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942 . By Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. xii + 615. $39.95. ISBN 0-8032-1327-1. (2005) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: INTRODUCTION (2005) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Map 2 (2005) (0)
The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath . By David M. Crowe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2008. Pp. xvi+524. Paper $49.00. ISBN 0-8133-4325-9. (2009) (0)
9 Tightened Security (2013) (0)
OBITUARY (1951) (0)
Greg Burgess. The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler’s Victims. (2019) (0)
Lasting Effects of the Holocaust (2009) (0)
HIST 327/627 - Twentieth Century Europe - course syllabus (2008) (0)
2 FDR Returns (2013) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: CONCLUSION (2005) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Case Studies of Genocide (2005) (0)
The SPD from Socialist Ghetto to Post-Godesberger Cul-de-Sac@@@German Socialism and Weimar Democracy@@@A History of the SPD, 1875-1933@@@Linksliberalismus in der Weimarer Republik (1983) (0)
The Ustaša: Murder and Espionage (2005) (0)
Introduction Four Roosevelts (2013) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND THE NAZIS (2005) (0)
10 Wartime America (2013) (0)
11 Debating Remedies (2013) (0)
8 Toward War (2013) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: The Nazi Peddler: Wilhelm Höttl and Allied Intelligence (2005) (0)
[The treatment of wounds with polychlorvinyl film dressings in the outpatient clinic]. (1963) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: Banking on Hitler: Chase National Bank and the Rückwanderer Mark Scheme, 1936–1941 (2005) (0)
Education and Class Cleavage in Late 19th Century Germany (1977) (0)
The Mystery of Heinrich Miiller: New Materials from the CIA (2001) (0)
[A CASE OF FEMORAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION IN A PATIENT WITH ENDARTERIITIS OBLITERANS AFTER THERAPEUTIC INTRA-ARTERIAL INJECTION OF FLUID]. (1963) (0)
[Collateral blood circulation after omentocardiopexy]. (1957) (0)
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism . By Donna Harsch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1993. Pp. x + 398. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2098-9. (1995) (0)
The Racial State: Germany, 1933–1945. By Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv plus 386 pp.) (1993) (0)
1 The Rise and Fall of FDR (2013) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: RECORD GROUPS CITED (2005) (0)
[RESULTS OF 2-YEAR USE OF POLYCHLORVINYL FILM FOR THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS AND BURNS]. (1963) (0)
12 Zionism and the Arab World (2013) (0)
13 The War Refugee Board (2013) (0)
The Berlin Mission (2019) (0)
Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial. By Rebecca Wittmann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 336. $35. ISBN 0-691-03199-1. (2006) (0)
HIST 744 - The Historian's Craft - course syllabus (2008) (0)
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis: PREFACE (2005) (0)

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