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.