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- ↑ Gómez, Moisés (2017). "Ser extranjero en Centroamérica. Génesis y evolución de las leyes de extranjería y migración en el Salvador: Siglos XIX y XX". Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (135): 117–151. doi: 10.5377/realidad.v0i135.3167 .
- ↑ "Deutsche in El Salvador".
- ↑ (In Spanish) La Prensa Gráfica La cofradía de Don Balta El Salvador, 22 September 2013. Retrieved, 26-11-2014
- ↑ "La historia del diplomático católico que salvó 40 mil judíos del holocausto".
- ↑ "Castellanos, el Schindler salvadoreño, salta a la gran pantalla".
- ↑ "El Salvador Virtual Jewish History Tour".
- ↑ "La historia del diplomático católico que salvó 40 mil judíos del holocausto".
- ↑ (In German) Auswärtiges Amt-El Salvador Information from Germany about El Salvador
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