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German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke: Letters and Documents, 1910–1977. Edited by Gerhard A. Ritter. Trans. Alex Skinner. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2010. Pp. xii+ 554. Cloth $183.00. ISBN 978-90-04-18404-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2011

Marjorie Lamberti
Marjorie Lamberti
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Middlebury College
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Central European History , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 536 - 542
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2011

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