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Nov 2020
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The Empire Strikes Back: Germany's Final...

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Many thought that Germany was capable of winning World War One until the very end. Unlike World War 2, in which the Allies believed that victory was inevitable as early as 1943, this was not the case with the Great War. It is also easy to assume that... 
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