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- ↑ Loveday Internment Group : : Colour footage from Camp 14 at Loveday : [digital video disc] , retrieved 3 October 2023
- 1 2 "Oskar Speck, the Nazi who kayaked 50,000 kms to Australia | Australia Explained". www.australia-explained.com.au. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ↑ "The Loveday Trilogy Part 1 | Oskar Speck". ABC listen. 23 August 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ↑ "Oskar Speck". Loveday Lives. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ↑ Nursey-Bray, Paul, "Francesco Giovanni (Frank) Fantin (1901–1942)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 3 October 2023
- ↑ "The Loveday Trilogy Part 2 | Francesco Fantin". ABC listen. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ↑ "Italians Leaving Loveday". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . South Australia. 16 September 1946. p. 9. Retrieved 3 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.