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A Calculated Restraint
What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust
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Richard Breitman
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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Why did the Allied leaders—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the competing political and military considerations that drove their responses to Nazi mass murder, showing how and why all three leaders often prioritized wartime constraints over moral considerations.
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A solid guide to a crisis in which leaders found themselves constrained by many obstacles from doing more.
-- Richard Overy Literary Review
-- Richard Overy Literary Review
A Calculated Restraint is Richard Breitman's magnum opus, the culmination of decades of brilliant scholarship. In an ideal world, this book should finally resolve the questions and dispel the myths that so many still have about the Allied leaders' knowledge of and response to the Holocaust as it was unfolding. I highlighted so many passages I ran out of ink.
-- Rebecca Erbelding, author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
-- Rebecca Erbelding, author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
In this brilliantly interwoven study, eminent historian Richard Breitman illuminates what three of the twentieth century’s most consequential leaders—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—knew privately and said publicly about the Holocaust. A riveting storyteller and a keen analyst of the sources, Breitman stays true to the record and to the facts known at the time. His account of the moral limitations and political calculations of these powerful men could not be more timely or instructive.
-- Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
-- Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
This fine book is vintage Richard Breitman: grounded in a mastery of relevant sources, guided by close and careful reading, insistent on historical contextualization, and suspicious of pieties. Breitman shows that one can understand the past only by immersing oneself in it, not by projecting present concerns or retrospective desires onto it.
-- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust
-- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust
Richard Breitman sets out with a seemingly simple goal: to contextualize the Allied leaders’ statements about what we now call the Holocaust. It is an indispensable task for historians, and a particularly urgent one in the field of Holocaust Studies, where all too often such statements are taken out of context. Drawing on his vast expertise, Breitman not only achieves this goal but also incisively analyzes Allied leaders’ policies regarding the Holocaust. With clarity and precision, he debunks many conventional myths and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Allied response to the murder of European Jews.
-- Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know
-- Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know
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