On Wednesday, September 15, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is historian Richard Breitman. Our program explores new perspectives regarding FDR’s commonly published views and actions regarding European Jewish refugees through the writings and views of James G. McDonald, FDR’s advisor on refugees.
Richard Breitman is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles in German history, U. S. history, and the Holocaust. His book The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (New York: Knopf, 1991) won the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History and was translated into five languages. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998), also has appeared in five foreign languages. His most recent books are editions of the diaries of James G. McDonald (League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1933-35, and chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, 1938-1945) in a series published by Indiana University Press.
He received his B.A. at Yale in 1969, graduating summa cum laude and with highest distinction in history and political science. He received his M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1975) in history from Harvard University. 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.
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