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- ↑ Andreas Klärner: Recension about IDGR for H-Soz-Kult, 23. January 2004 (German)
- ↑ Macht ihnen ihr soziales Umfeld zur Hölle, (make their social setting hell) by C.-M. Wolfschlag, February 28, 2003