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- ↑ MoMA|German Expressionism Style: New Objectivity
- ↑ Cultural changes: developments in architecture, art and the cinema - The Weimar Republic 1918-1929 - Edexcel - GCSE History Revision - Edexcel - BBC Bitesize
- ↑ Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of ...by Bernadette Kester, page 123
- ↑ Private Anxieties/Public Projections: "New Objectivity", Male Subjectivity, and Weimar Cinema on JSTOR
- ↑ Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era, edited by Noah William Isenberg, page 140
- ↑ Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of ...by Bernadette Kester, page 123
- ↑ Westfront 1918 (1930)|The Criterion Collection
- ↑ The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945, by Klaus Kreimeier, page 113
- ↑ New Objectivity - Didactics_0.pdf
- ↑ Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era, edited by Noah William Isenberg, page 140
- ↑ Isenberg, Noah, ed. (2009). Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. Columbia University Press. p. 236. ISBN 9780231503853 . Retrieved February 2, 2023– via Google Books.
- ↑ Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1930) on JSTOR
- ↑ An Endless Number of Great Deeds: Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933) by Bernadette Kester — Senses of Cinema
