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Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
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Hitler's Bandit
Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe
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War in the Wild East the German Army and Soviet
Partisans
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1944
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The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953
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1140:Army groups of the German Army in World War II
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231:Security warfare and crimes against humanity
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594:Army Group Rear Area Command
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410:. Rowman & Littlefield.
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217:Higher SS and Police Leaders
127:invasion of the Soviet Union
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263:crimes against humanity
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150:crimes against humanity
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1020:Riga Trial
916:Milestones
657:Commanders
480:0674043553
386:Frank Cass
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261:and other
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