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- ↑ Celia Applegate (ed.), Music and German National Identity, The University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 262.
- ↑ "West Germany (1950-1952) – nationalanthems.info".
- ↑ Peter Reichel, Schwarz-Rot-Gold: kleine Geschichte deutscher Nationalsymbole nach 1945, p. 41/42.