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Gerhard Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his MA (1949) and PhD (1951) in history from the University of Chicago. Weinberg’s early masterpiece was the two-volume history of Hitler’s diplomatic preparations for war: The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany (1970 and 1980; republished 1994). In 1994, he published a 1000-page one-volume history of the Second World War, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Weinberg continued his studies of the World War II era after the publication of his general history by examining each of the major wartime leaders’ visions for a post-victory world. It was published in 2005 as Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.