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- 1 2 Bruno Kreisky (2000). The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice. Berghahn Books. p. 521. ISBN 978-1-57181-155-4 . Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- 1 2 Oliver Rathkolb (2002). "The Kreisky Era, 1970-1983". In Rolf Steininger; Günter Bischof; Michael Gehler (eds.). Austria in the Twentieth Century. Transaction Publishers. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-4128-1196-5 . Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ Bruce F. Pauley (1992). From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-8078-6376-3 . Retrieved 27 July 2013.
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