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Preface | |
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Hitler's War | |
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The Legacy of World War I | |
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The Rise of the Nazis | |
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The New German Republic | |
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Adolf Hitler: The Early Years | |
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Hitler's Worldview | |
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The Nazis in Power | |
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The Breakdown of Peace | |
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Hitler's Foreign Policy Aims | |
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Tearing Up the Versailles Treaty | |
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German and Italian Aggressions, 1935-1939 | |
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Czechoslovakia: The Apex of Appeasement | |
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Poland: The Final Crisis | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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The German Blitzkrieg, 1939-1940 | |
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The Invasion of Poland | |
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Mechanized Warfare: A New Military Tactic | |
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The Defeat of Poland | |
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The Conquest of Denmark and Norway | |
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The Low Countries and France | |
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Prewar French Strategy | |
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The German Offensive | |
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The German Conquest of Western Europe, 1940 | |
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Through the Ardennes | |
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The French in a Rout | |
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The "Miracle of Dunkirk" | |
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The Fall of France | |
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Reasons for France's Defeat | |
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The Battle of Britain | |
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Fighter Command and Britain's Air Defense | |
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Nazi Germany's First Defeat | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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Operation Barbarossa | |
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The Balkans First | |
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The Opening Phase | |
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A War of Annihilation | |
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German Successes | |
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Operation Barbarossa and the Eastern Front, 1941 | |
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Soviet Resilience and German Miscalculations | |
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Russian Tenacity and Courage | |
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Unforeseen Challenges | |
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Stalin's Continued Terror | |
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The Wehrmacht Thwarted: Moscow and Leningrad | |
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At the Gates of Moscow | |
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A Soviet Counterattack | |
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The Epic Siege of Leningrad | |
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The Tide Turns: Stalingrad | |
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More German Conquests | |
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Operation Blue | |
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Urban Warfare | |
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The Death of the Sixth Army | |
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Kursk: Germany's Last Offensive on Soviet Soil | |
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Soviet Preparations | |
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A Stalled German Offensive | |
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No Prospect of a German Victory | |
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Hitler and His Generals | |
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The Momentum Changes | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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The Racial Empire: Exploitation, Enslavement, Extermination | |
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Exploitation and Terror | |
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Forced Labor | |
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Occupied Poland | |
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Occupied Soviet Union | |
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The Holocaust: The Extermination of European Jewry | |
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The SS Mentality | |
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Mobile Death Squads | |
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Extermination Camps | |
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Main Deportation Centers | |
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The Uniqueness of the Holocaust | |
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The German People and the Holocaust | |
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Germany | |
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Austria | |
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Europe, America, and the Holocaust | |
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Complicity | |
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Righteous Gentiles | |
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Bombing of Auschwitz Controversy | |
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The Vatican's Policy of Silence | |
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Collaboration with the Nazis in Occupied Europe | |
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Resistance Movements | |
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Notes | |
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War on Other Fronts | |
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Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 | |
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The U-Boats' "Happy Time" | |
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Coping with the Threat | |
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The North African Campaign | |
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Rommel and the Afrika Korps | |
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Containing the Desert Fox | |
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American Entry | |
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Driving the Axis from North Africa | |
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The Italian Campaign | |
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Invasion of Sicily | |
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Rome under Nazi Occupation | |
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Invasion of the Mainland: Salerno | |
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Anzio: Bloody Stalemate | |
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Cassino: Costly Breakout | |
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The Italian Campaign: A Wasteful Diversion? | |
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The Air War: 1941 to D-Day | |
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Precision and Area Bombing | |
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Was It Worth It? | |
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The Home Front | |
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Sustaining Morale and Coping with Hardship | |
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The "Blitz" | |
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The War and Women | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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Invasion: From the Atlantic Wall to the Siegfried Line | |
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The Landing at Normandy | |
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Preparation | |
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D-Day | |
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Rommel and the Atlantic Wall | |
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Omaha Beach: A Near Disaster | |
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Allied Success | |
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Struggling to Break Out | |
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Cherbourg and Bocage Country | |
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Caen | |
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Tlie Falaise Pocket | |
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Liberation | |
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Temporary Stalemate on the Western Front | |
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German Recovery | |
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German Military Resurgence: Market Garden, Aachen, Huertgen Forest, Metz | |
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Advance to the German Border, July 24-December 15, 1944 | |
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble | |
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Hitler's Goals and Strategy | |
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Initial Success | |
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American Resistance and German Defeat | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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The End of the Third Reich | |
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German Morale: Ambivalent, Fanatic, Fatalist | |
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Red Army on the Offensive | |
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Operation Bagration | |
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World War II: The European Theatre | |
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Beyond the Soviet Union's Borders | |
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The Drive into Germany from the West | |
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The Rhineland | |
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Montgomery's Crossing of the Rhine | |
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Saturation Bombing | |
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The Ruhr and Beyond | |
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Victory in Italy | |
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Unconditional Surrender: Prolonging the War? | |
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Liberating Concentration Camps | |
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The Drive into Germany from the East | |
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The Vistula Offensive: Poland and the Reich | |
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Soviet Retribution and German Flight | |
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To the Bitter End | |
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Soviet Advance and Goebbels' Desperate Appeals | |
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Nazi Terror | |
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The Bunker: A Delusional Hitler | |
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The Storming of Berlin: The Last Battle | |
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The End of Hitler and His Third Reich | |
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Chronology | |
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Notes | |
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The Aftermath, Legacy, and Meaning of the War | |
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Death Toll | |
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Material Damage | |
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Population Transfers and Ethnic Cleansing | |
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Retribution for Collaborators | |
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War Crimes Trials | |
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Jewish Survivors | |
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The New (West) Germany: Overcoming the Past | |
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The Reality of Total Defeat | |
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Konrad Adenauer: Architect of the New West Germany | |
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Facing Responsibility | |
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Enduring Myths: A Defensive War and the Wehrmacht's Clean Hands | |
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The German Clergy in the Confession Booth | |
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Emergence of the Cold War | |
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European Unity | |
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The Demise of European Imperialism | |
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The War and Western Consciousness | |
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Notes | |
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Selected Bibiliography | |
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Index | |