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- ↑ "Die militärische Ansicht-Skizze im Felde". Europeana Collections. Europeana Collections. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ↑ Weinstein, Joan (1990). The End of Expressionism: Art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-1919. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226890593.
- ↑ McMeekin, Sean (2009). History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks - PDF Free Download. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.