German Socialism and Weimar Democracy, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981
Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman, Breaking the Silence, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Richard Breitman and Alan Kraut, American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. New York: Hill and Wang/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998.
Ausbildungsziel Judenmord?: Weltanschauliche Erziehung von SS, Polizei, und Waffen-SS im Rahmen der ‘Endlösung’, ed. Jürgen Matthäus, Jürgen Förster, Konrad Kwiet and Richard Breitman (Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003).
Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, and Timothy Naftali, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, Washington, D. C.: The National Archives Trust Fund for the Nazi War Criminals Records Interagency Working Group, 2004.
Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, eds., Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-35, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
German History in Documents and Images: Nazi Germany (1933–45)
Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).