RICHARD BREITMAN is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles in German history, U. S. history, and the Holocaust. Breitman teaches at American University and is editor of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He served as director of historical research for the Nazi War Criminal Records and Imperial Japanese Records Interagency Working Group, which helped to bring about declassification of more than eight million pages of U.S. government records under a 1998 law.
A truly path-breaking book, one of the few that will have a lasting
impact on historical research of the period. It shows both the
primacy of Hitler as the motivating force in the mass murder, and
the way in which his initiatives were accepted and internalized by
the SS, on the basis of ideology. Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust and
Genocide Studies"
Breitman s book is decisively important... [It] should serve for
years to come as required reading for all who wish to make sense of
the Holocaust. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, The New Republic"
Breitman s research [is] meticulous. Especially valuable are his
novel insights into the full and frequent communication between
Himmler and Hitler, who, it is known, seldom signed an order. New
York Times Book Review"
This decisively important book should serve for years to come as
required reading for all who wish to make sense of the Holocaust.
The Nation"
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