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- ↑ "Graf Zeppelin". Rundel.de. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ↑ "The Conqueror" (PDF). bandmusicpdf.org.
- ↑ "ツェッペリン伯爵行進曲（カール・タイケ）について" [About Graf Zeppelin March (Carl Teike)]. Osaka Gakuin University (in Japanese).
- ↑ "Neue Kameraden". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. 2 June 1965. Archived from the original on 2019-04-09. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ↑ Воздушный флот (in Russian). 1911 – via Russian State Library.
- ↑ "Till Stenbocksmarschen". 1997-09-22.
