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- ↑ "Broadcasting Standards Commission - Synopsis of adjudication Horizon: Atlantis Reborn (November 4th 1999)".
- ↑ Christopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade. The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley, c2003. x, 422 p., [26] p. of plates. ISBN 0-471-26292-7: "Schäfer cannily had a letterhead printed. It read DEUTSCHE TIBET EXPEDITION ERNST SCHÄFER in large letters, then 'under the patronage of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and in connection with the Ahnenerbe' in small letters!"
- ↑ "La crociata di Himmler - Hale Christopher - Garzanti Libri". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ "The Mazzotti Prize: Past winners". Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ Neal Ascherson, A Plan and a Man, review of Christopher Hale's Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain’s My Lai , in London Review of Books, Vol. 36, No 4, 20 February 2014.
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