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Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945

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Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. / Willems, Bastiaan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 366 p. (Cambridge Military Histories).

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Willems, B 2021, Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. Cambridge Military Histories, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violence-in-defeat/7721E33D483FFBF8AE864D6926C3723B>

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Willems, B. (2021). Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. (Cambridge Military Histories). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violence-in-defeat/7721E33D483FFBF8AE864D6926C3723B

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Willems B. Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 366 p. (Cambridge Military Histories).

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Willems, Bastiaan. / Violence in Defeat : The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 366 p. (Cambridge Military Histories).

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