Richard Breitman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1001673 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Breitman |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Breitman |
| FIRMA | BREITMAN R |
| AFILIACIONES | American University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Seeking Justice for the Holocaust
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (Imt) included Nazi crimes against the Jews under the charge “crimes against humanity” but limited them to wartime crimes. If Germans could be convicted for legally persecuting German Jews before September 1939, what would remain of national sovereignty? According to Graham B. Cox, American concerns about racially discriminatory laws and practices in the United States stood in the way of full justi…
Obituary
Walter Ze’ev Laqueur, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany and a historian of astonishing reach and productivity, died on September 30, 2018 at his home in Washington, DC. He was ninety-seven. Only a fraction of his more than seventy books dealt specifically with the Holocaust, but he had a major impact on this field and the scholars in it, including the authors of this obituary. Laqueur was born into a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland…
G reg B urgess . The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany
From 1933 to 1935, American foreign policy expert James G. McDonald served as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany—despite the fact that the U.S. was not a member of the league. He resigned at the end of 1935, protesting publicly and loudly at the lack of support for refugees from the league and from major governments. In his concise and well-written study of the League of Nations High Commission…
Peter Longerich. Heinrich Himmler
Journal Article Peter Longerich. Heinrich Himmler. Get access Peter Longerich. Heinrich Himmler. Translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xviii, 1031. $34.95. Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, February 2013, Page 273, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/118.1.2…
Helping Humanity
Using an array of primary sources, Keith Pomakoy presents case studies of American rescue or relief measures in response to genocide. From Spanish anti-insurgency measures in late nineteenth-century Cuba to cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, the United States has never devised an easy way to halt genocide. Expanding upon Merle Curti's 1963 American Philanthropy Abroad, Pomakoy shows that private organizations often supplied effe…
Communications
Richard Breitman responds: The first task of a book reviewer is to summarize important features of the book. On pp. 152–153 Michaela Hoenicke Moore quoted a late 1942 comment by OWI official Leo Rosten (who was Jewish): “the story of the Nazi conquest, administration, terrorism, and treatment of occupied countries will be confused and misleading if it appears to be simply a story affecting the Jewish people.” Moore adds, “the Holocaust seems to h…
Himmler, the Architect of Genocide
David Bankier, 1947-2010
The death of David Bankier on February 25th robbed Holocaust scholarship of a powerful voice and vital force. For years Bankier had suffered from multiple myeloma, but had managed to continue his work. Survived by three children, he was 63. Born in Germany, David Bankier was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his doctorate in 1984. He was among Yehuda Bauer's many students. Bankier became lecturer at the Hebrew Univ…
Lasting Effects of the Holocaust
Martin Dean. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 448 pp., $60.00, ISBN 978-0-5218-8825-7. Nathan Stoltzfus
Martin Lorenz-Meyer, Safehaven
July 01 2008 Martin Lorenz-Meyer, Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad. Richard Breitman Richard Breitman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Richard Breitman Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (3): 164–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.3.164 Cite Icon Cite Permission…
Manhunts
The shadow of the nazi period is a long one, particularly in terms of the search for notorious Nazi criminals. The 1960 Israeli capture of Adolf Eichmann still fires the public imagination, due to the daring nature of the kidnapping and to the historic importance of Eichmann's trial. Also fervent in the public imagination are those Nazi figures of singular evil who disappeared after the war and who, unlike Eichmann, managed to escape justice enti…
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 about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some US corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveal…
New Sources on the Holocaust in Italy
In 2000 the United States National Archives opened a collection of intelligence documents containing new evidence about the October 1943 roundup and deportation of more than 1,000 Jews in Rome. This article draws upon British decodes of radio messages exchanged between SS and SD officials in Rome and Berlin to identify key participants in the decisions to deport and murder Italian Jews, and to revise the chronology of these decisions. It also sho…
The Mystery of Heinrich Müller
In April 2001, the National Archives released twenty Central Intelligence Agency “Name Files” as part of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Many more such releases will follow. While all of the files contain items of interest to students of the Nazi period and the Cold War, the file for Hitler's Gestapo Chief, Heinrich Müller, is most interesting for what it does not contain. While it is impossible to say for certain how or even whether Mül…
Mein Kampf and the Himmler Family
Journal Article Mein Kampf and the Himmler Family: Two Generations React to Hitler's Ideas Get access Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 90–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/13.1.90 Published: 01 March 1999
A Deal with the Nazi Dictatorship
During the second world war, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union declared that nazi Germany had to surrender unconditionally. For his part, Hitler was determined to fight on to complete victory or defeat, but not everyone on the German side was so rigid. Unofficially, some subordinate nazi officials sought to explore the possibilities of a compromise peace. Reliable evidence of what ensued is hard to come by, however, because of gaps …
Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941
The Architect of Genocide
A biography of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the man most closely associated with programmes of mass murder. Drawing on sources ranging from the Nuremburg trial records to US Army Intelligence files, the author attempts to expose the life and career of this German bureaucrat
American Rescue Activities in Sweden
Journal Article American Rescue Activities in Sweden Get access Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American UniversityWashington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall 1993, Pages 202–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.2.202 Published: 01 October 1993
The End of the “Final Solution”
It first seemed to be a simple, if fantastic, deal: Blut gegen Waren , Jewish blood in exchange for goods. On 18 May 1944 two emissaries flew into Intanbul on special missions for high Nazi authorities. The first, Joel Brand of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, explained that he came with a proposal from Adolf Eichmann. If the Allies provided Nazi Germany with ten thousand trucks for use exclusively on the eastern front, as well as large q…
Himmler and the 'Terrible Secret' among the Executioners
In Why Did the Hea vens Not Darken?: The 'Final Solution'in History, Arno J. Mayer emphasized the nazi fixation with the destruction of Soviet communism, a concern which many East Europeans shared. For Mayer, the Jews represent the exposed wing of a decades-long 'Judeobolshevist' threat to Eastern Europe. In the wake of the nazi invasion of the USSR, strident nationalists in Latvia, Lithuania, Byelorussia and the Ukraine used the early moments of…
The Architect of Genocide
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945.
Hitler and Genghis Khan
In a radio broadcast to the British public on 24 August 1941, Winston 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'.' Churchill would have done better to locate the Mongol hordes in the thirteenth century, but in other respects his analog…
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the a…
The End of the “Final Solution”
It first seemed to be a simple, if fantastic, deal: Blut gegen Waren , Jewish blood in exchange for goods. On 18 May 1944 two emissaries flew into Intanbul on special missions for high Nazi authorities. The first, Joel Brand of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, explained that he came with a proposal from Adolf Eichmann. If the Allies provided Nazi Germany with ten thousand trucks for use exclusively on the eastern front, as well as large q…
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
Journal Article American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945. By Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. ix + 310 pp. $27.50.) Get access Moses Rischin Moses Rischin San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 995–996, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901683 Published: 01 Dece…
The Architect of Genocide
Hitler and Genghis Khan
In a radio broadcast to the British public on 24 August 1941, Winston 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'.' Churchill would have done better to locate the Mongol hordes in the thirteenth century, but in other respects his analog…
Auschwitz and the Archives
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On German Social Democracy and General Schleicher 1932–33
Many historians have taken an interest in the last few months of the Weimar Republic. The relationship between the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the General Confederation of Labor (ADGB) has become a subject of particular attention, as scholars sought a way in which working-class organizations might have stopped the Nazi movement before Hitler became chancellor. Some scholars have written about a bitter feud between socialist party and…
A Deal with the Nazi Dictatorship
During the second world war, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union declared that nazi Germany had to surrender unconditionally. For his part, Hitler was determined to fight on to complete victory or defeat, but not everyone on the German side was so rigid. Unofficially, some subordinate nazi officials sought to explore the possibilities of a compromise peace. Reliable evidence of what ensued is hard to come by, however, because of gaps …
American Rescue Activities in Sweden
Journal Article American Rescue Activities in Sweden Get access Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American UniversityWashington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall 1993, Pages 202–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.2.202 Published: 01 October 1993
On German Social Democracy and General Schleicher 1932–33
Many historians have taken an interest in the last few months of the Weimar Republic. The relationship between the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the General Confederation of Labor (ADGB) has become a subject of particular attention, as scholars sought a way in which working-class organizations might have stopped the Nazi movement before Hitler became chancellor. Some scholars have written about a bitter feud between socialist party and…
Education and Class Cleavage in Late 19th Century Germany
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Negative Integration and Parliamentary Politics
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The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933
German Socialism and Weimar Democracy
From Orthodox Marxism to Parliamentary Democracy
THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE German labour movement has a tradition of more than a century. Yet not until the past 25 years has it received the scholarly attention it deserves. Until the 1950s the political, psychological, and methodological prerequisites for an impartial and differentiated examination were lacking. Today the history of organized labour in Germany is well on its way to becoming one of the most preferred areas of research in modern G…
The SPD from Socialist Ghetto to Post-Godesberger Cul-de-Sac
The Allied War Effort and the Jews, 1942-1943
The publication of Bernard Wasserstein's Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945 in 1979 implicitly raised questions about existing studies of American response to the Holocaust. Wasserstein's approach and interpretation of British policies toward European Jews differed appreciably from those of scholars who had studied the Roosevelt administration's corresponding activities. Not content with highlighting the Foreign Office's role in the formula…
Auschwitz and the Archives
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Breaking the Silence
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the a…
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
Journal Article American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945. By Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. ix + 310 pp. $27.50.) Get access Moses Rischin Moses Rischin San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 995–996, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901683 Published: 01 Dece…
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945.
Hitler and Genghis Khan
In a radio broadcast to the British public on 24 August 1941, Winston 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'.' Churchill would have done better to locate the Mongol hordes in the thirteenth century, but in other respects his analog…
Himmler and the 'Terrible Secret' among the Executioners
In Why Did the Hea vens Not Darken?: The 'Final Solution'in History, Arno J. Mayer emphasized the nazi fixation with the destruction of Soviet communism, a concern which many East Europeans shared. For Mayer, the Jews represent the exposed wing of a decades-long 'Judeobolshevist' threat to Eastern Europe. In the wake of the nazi invasion of the USSR, strident nationalists in Latvia, Lithuania, Byelorussia and the Ukraine used the early moments of…
The Architect of Genocide
The End of the “Final Solution”
It first seemed to be a simple, if fantastic, deal: Blut gegen Waren , Jewish blood in exchange for goods. On 18 May 1944 two emissaries flew into Intanbul on special missions for high Nazi authorities. The first, Joel Brand of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, explained that he came with a proposal from Adolf Eichmann. If the Allies provided Nazi Germany with ten thousand trucks for use exclusively on the eastern front, as well as large q…
The Architect of Genocide
A biography of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the man most closely associated with programmes of mass murder. Drawing on sources ranging from the Nuremburg trial records to US Army Intelligence files, the author attempts to expose the life and career of this German bureaucrat
American Rescue Activities in Sweden
Journal Article American Rescue Activities in Sweden Get access Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American UniversityWashington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall 1993, Pages 202–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.2.202 Published: 01 October 1993
Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941
A Deal with the Nazi Dictatorship
During the second world war, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union declared that nazi Germany had to surrender unconditionally. For his part, Hitler was determined to fight on to complete victory or defeat, but not everyone on the German side was so rigid. Unofficially, some subordinate nazi officials sought to explore the possibilities of a compromise peace. Reliable evidence of what ensued is hard to come by, however, because of gaps …
Mein Kampf and the Himmler Family
Journal Article Mein Kampf and the Himmler Family: Two Generations React to Hitler's Ideas Get access Richard Breitman Richard Breitman American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 90–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/13.1.90 Published: 01 March 1999
The Mystery of Heinrich Müller
In April 2001, the National Archives released twenty Central Intelligence Agency “Name Files” as part of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Many more such releases will follow. While all of the files contain items of interest to students of the Nazi period and the Cold War, the file for Hitler's Gestapo Chief, Heinrich Müller, is most interesting for what it does not contain. While it is impossible to say for certain how or even whether Mül…
New Sources on the Holocaust in Italy
In 2000 the United States National Archives opened a collection of intelligence documents containing new evidence about the October 1943 roundup and deportation of more than 1,000 Jews in Rome. This article draws upon British decodes of radio messages exchanged between SS and SD officials in Rome and Berlin to identify key participants in the decisions to deport and murder Italian Jews, and to revise the chronology of these decisions. It also sho…
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