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- ↑ Gert Kerschbaumer on Lootedart. com
- ↑ Stefan Zweig der fliegende Salzburger on OpenLibrary
- ↑ Faszination Drittes Reich. Kunst u. Alltag d. Kulturmetropole Salzburg on WorldCat
- ↑ Meister des Verwirrens : die Geschäfte des Kunsthändlers Friedrich Welz on WorldCat
- ↑ Begnadet für das Schöne. Der rot-weiss-rote Kulturkampf gegen die Moderne on WorldCat
- ↑ Stefan Zweig. Der fliegende Salzburger on WorldCat
- ↑ "Wenn einen Augenblick die Wolken weichen" : Briefwechsel 1912 - 1942; Stefan Zweig u. Friderike Zweig on WorldCat
