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German Plans for Victory, 1944–45
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2008
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Unless otherwise cited, the material in this piece is based on my forthcoming book, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge, 1994)Google Scholar, and the sources provided there. The present text is based on a lecture given at the German Historical Institute in Washington in April 1993.
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