__NOTOC__ Rolf-Dieter Müller (born 9 December 1948) is a

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military historian and

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, who has served as Scientific Director of the

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since 1999. Rolf-Dieter Müller is also a former professor of military history at

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. Müller, in cooperation with German journalist Rudibert Kunz, is known for being the first historian to write about the use of chemical weapons in the Rif War in a 1990 book titled ''Giftgas Gegen Abd El Krim: Deutschland, Spanien und der Gaskrieg in Spanisch-Marokko, 1922-1927''. Müller was one of the lead researchers on the seminal work '' Germany and the Second World War.''

Works

In English

*'' Germany and the Second World War'' (contributor) *'' Hitler's War in the East 1941−1945: A Critical Assessment'' (1997) *''The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers'' *Hitler's Wehrmacht 1935-1945 *Enemy in the East: Hitler's Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union

In German

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1948 births Living people 20th-century German historians Rif War German male non-fiction writers {{germany-historian-stub