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Class and Community in the Third Reich

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. J. Overy
R. J. Overy
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Queen's College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1979 , pp. 493 - 503
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3 Ibid. pp. 19, 41.

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18 The completed stretches ran mainly north-south by 1939, not east-west. The figure Snyder gives of 70,000 working on the roads by the construction peak should be 120,000. Overy, ‘Transportation and rearmament in the Third Reich’, pp. 393–4.