Department of History

American University

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Richard Breitman  

Richard D. Breitman

Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Battelle 119
rbreit@american.edu
202-885-2386
Office Hours: Mon./Thu. 12:30-3:30pm
Curriculum Vitae

Fields of Interest

Modern Germany, the Holocaust, twentieth century European and American political and intelligence history

Richard Breitman teaches modern European history.  He has specialized in modern German history and the Holocaust and has also written about twentieth-century American history.  He obtained his B. A. from Yale and his M. A. and Ph. D. from Harvard.  He holds an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College.

He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books and about fifty articles.  His most recent works include Advocate for the Doomed: the Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-35 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007); and U. S. Intelligence and the Nazis (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  Other works have been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Hebrew, and Japanese.

He is editor of the scholarly journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which is owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

 
 

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