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Rolf-Dieter Müller
was born in 1948 and studied history,
political science and education in
Braunschweig and Mainz. He
completed his PhD in 1981 and his
postdoctoral dissertation in 1999.
Since 1979 he has been working at
the Research Institute for Military
History (MGFA) on an ambitious
project on the German Reich and the
Second World War. He was appointed
director of research in 1999 and also
holds an honorary professorship at
the Humboldt University in Berlin. He
has published widely on the Second
World War and worked on the TV
productions Soldaten für Hitler
and Heimatfront.
Previous works include:
Organisation und Mobilisierung
des deutschen Machtbereichs
(Das Deutsche Reich und der
Zweite Weltkrieg, Vols V/1 & V/II
with B. R. Kroener & H. Umbreit.
Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1998 & 1999,
published in English by Oxford
University Press as Vols V/1 & V/II
of Germany and the Second World
War); Hitlers Krieg im Osten
1941-1945 (with G. R. Ueberschär.
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
October 2000, published in English
by Berghahn Books as Hitler’s War
in the East); Der zweite Weltkrieg
1939-1945 (Gebhardt. Handbuch
der Deutschen Geschichte, Vol 21.
Klett-Cotta, 2004); and numerous
other books on the Second World War.
Der Bombenkrieg 1939-1945
(Ch. Links Verlag, 2004), his
account of the air war, is
reviewed on p. 4 of this issue.
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