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- ↑ Spivak, Rhonda (October 14, 2014). "the Imperial Hotel-Where Hitler Stayed When In Vienna After the Anschluss". Winnipeg Jewish Review.
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- ↑ Connolly, Kate (May 21, 2002). "Vienna's tourist trail of plunder". The Guardian.