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by Richard Breitman

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Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives.

As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of millions. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its intelligence services had for years been intercepting, decoding, and analyzing German police radio messages and SS ones, too. Yet these important papers were sealed away as "Most Secret," "Never to Be Removed from This Office"-and they have only now reappeared.

Integrating this new evidence with other sources, Richard Breitman reconsiders how Germany's leaders brought about the Holocaust-and when-and reassesses Britain's and America's suppression of information about the Nazi killings. His absorbing account of the tensions between the two powers and the consequences of keeping this information secret for so long shows us the danger of continued government secrecy, which serves none of us well, and the failure to punish many known war criminals.

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ADOLF HITLER MIXED CANDOR and dissimulation in nearly equal parts.

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  • Title Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew
  • Author Richard Breitman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Th
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hill & Wang, New York
  • Publication date 1999-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780809001842 / 0809001845
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.58 x 0.79 in (21.34 x 14.17 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.540

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  • New York Times, 11/28/1999, Page 32

About the author

Richard Breitman, professor of history at American University, is the author of Architect of Genocide, a biography of Himmler. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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