BBC History Magazine

Centuries of iron

ew human works have inflicted as much misery on the world as the German military. The murderous violence it unleashed across two world wars retains all its power to horrify and fascinate, even a century on. The question of why and how German soldiers committed such crimes remains important, and it is inevitably one of the major themes of Peter H

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