__NOTOC__ Rolf-Dieter Müller (born 9 December 1948) is a German military historian and

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

, who has served as Scientific Director of the

German Armed Forces Military History Research Office The Military History Research Office (german: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, MGFA) is an office of the ''Bundeswehr'' located at Potsdam, Germany. Following a reorganisation in 2013, MGFA was consolidated with the to become the Center ...

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

Humboldt University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...

. 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 During the Third Rif War in Spanish Morocco between 1921 and 1927, the Spanish Army of Africa deployed chemical weapons in an attempt to put down the Berber rebellion against colonial rule in the region of Rif led by the guerrilla Abd el-Krim ...

in a 1999 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 ''Germany and the Second World War'' (german: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that has taken academics from the military history centre of the German ...

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Works

In English

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'' (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

References and notes

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