1969
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"A sensible German government would have taken the break late summer of 1944 to seek an armistice and to escape the final wave of destruction. They hoped the Allies, even a government like Hitler. Were wrong." This resulted in Battle of Berlin ... one of the most important operations, hardest and most consequential of the entire war
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Earl F. Ziemke
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Earl Frederick Ziemke was an American military historian who specialized in German operations on the Eastern Front in World War II. After service in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific during the war, Ziemke earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin. From 1951 until 1955, he worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, after which he spent twelve years as an historian for the United States Army’s Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington, D.C. In 1967, he moved to the University of Georgia, where he was a full professor form 1967 until 1977, and research professor from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.
