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“Heroic” Nihilism in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Earl F. Ziemke
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Central European History , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 83 - 91
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1980

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