Description: Brief acts of resistance, such as an officers' rebellion of consciencein July 1944, embody the repressed, principled humanity of Germany's soldiers, but ultimately, Müller concludes, the Wehrmacht became the steel guarantorof the criminal Nazi regime.
Brief description: Rolf-Dieter Müller is former professor of military history at Humboldt University in Berlin. He served as scientific director in the German Armed Forces Center for Military History and Social Science in Potsdam, where he coordinated the German Reich and the Second World War project. Müller is the author of numerous books, including The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers and Enemy in the East: Hitler's Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union.
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This impressively comprehensive work contains a wealth of useful information. Rolf-Dieter Müller has long been one of the foremost historians of World War II in Germany and the world, and he is certainly knowledgeable in terms of content, new interpretations, emerging themes, and fresh areas of research.
--Stephen G. Fritz, author of Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East