Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ The National Archives holds a Foreign Office file relating to a request for assistance in obtaining travel documents to enter the Federal Republic of Germany under reference FO 371/109708, Security Service files on him under references KV 2/259 to KV 2/261, a Home Office file on him under reference HO 45/25798 and a file about his pardon under reference CRIM 1/585/141 [17]
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- ↑ "15 Years' Sentence: Courlander Arrives in Dominion". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Evening Star. 21 December 1945. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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- ↑ Sean Murphy. Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War, PP45-8; London: The History Press Ltd, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-4176-6
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- ↑ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Location 3356-3358). Random House. Kindle Edition
- ↑ Sean Murphy. Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War, PP215-6; London: The History Press Ltd, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-4176-6
- ↑ British Military & Criminal History 1900 to 1999
- ↑ The Trial of William Joyce, P 188
- ↑ "Irma Sophie Gertrude STAPLETON". The National Archives.
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- ↑ "The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich", holocaustresearchproject.org; accessed 13 May 2018.