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- ↑ Philipp–Christian Wachs "Der Fall Theodor Oberländer (1905–1998): Ein Lehrstück deutscher Geschichte", Frankfurt/Main; New York Campus-Verl. 2000, ISBN 3-593-36445-X
- ↑ Anna Rosmus: Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 77f
