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- ↑ "Dazed Crowd Sees the Ruins Combed". New York Times. September 13, 1940.
- 1 2 Petriello, David (2014). Military History of New Jersey. History Press. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-1626196278.
- ↑ Ross, Steven (2017). Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America. New York: Bloomsbury. pp. 288–289. ISBN 978-1620405642.
- ↑ "Reich Vice Consul Investigated Here: Dies Committee Agents Refuse to Discuss Espionage and Sabotage Accusations". New York Times. October 19, 1940.
- ↑ "Ethnic Germans as an Instrument of German Intelligence Services in the USA, 1933–45" by Cornelia Wilhelm in Heike Bungert, et al. (Eds.) (2003). Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century . London: Frank Cass. pp. 48. ISBN 978-0714653952.
- ↑ Hochman, Louis C. "Long-vacant Hercules plant site could get transit village, warehouses", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 15, 2014. Accessed July 21, 2016. "Hundreds of residents manufacturer high explosives at the Hercules Powder Factory, according to the Roxbury Township Historical Society. Two explosions killed six workers in 1934. Then, in 1940, more than 297,000 pounds of gunpowder blew up at the factory in a series of explosions and fires, leveling 20 buildings in the nearby area. That explosion killed 51 people and injured and burned 200 others, according to the historical society."
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