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- ↑ Wie Siegfried unter dem hinterlistigen Speerwurf des grimmigen Hagen, so stürzte unsere ermattete Front ("Like Siegfried falling under the cowardly spear-throw of grim Hagen, so fell our exhausted front") Paul von Hindenburg, Aus meinem Leben. Hirzel, Leipzig 1920, p. 403, cited after Jesko von Hoegen, Der Held von Tannenberg. Genese und Funktion des Hindenburg-Mythos. Böhlau, 2007, p. 253.
- ↑ Fritz Erik Hoevels, Marxismus, Psychoanalyse, Politik, Ahriman-Verlag GmbH, 1983 p. 243.
- ↑ Dennis Tate, Franz Fühmann, Innovation and Authenticity: A Study of His Prose-writing, Rodopi, 1995, 37–39.
- ↑ Jonathan Steinberg, All Or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943, Psychology Press, 1990, p. 137.
- ↑ duden.de: "oft abwertend".
- ↑ Die deutsche Politik gegenüber Israel verwechselt Solidarität mit Nibelungentreue. ("German policy towards Israel confuses solidarity with Nibelungentreue.") Michael Lüders, "Merkels skandalöse Nibelungentreue", The European 12 June 2012.
- ↑ Blairs Entscheidung, im Umgang mit der westlichen Supermacht mögliche Differenzen niemals in die Öffentlichkeit zu tragen, verschärft den Eindruck blinder Nibelungentreue. ("Blair's decision to never publicize possible differences with the western superpower reinforces the impression of blind Nibelungentreue" Jürgen Krönig, "Blinde Nibelungentreue?", Zeit, 28 July 2006.
- ↑ Stefan Osterhaus, "Der deutsche Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw", NZZ , 21 June 2014 (describes Joachim Löw as nibelungentreu towards his players Bastian Schweinsteiger and Miroslav Klose).
- Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Hitlers Politik als Ausdruck einer Nibelungen-Mentalität. Zur Wirkungsgeschichte deutscher Heldensage, in: Michael Benedikt et al. (eds.), Verdrängter Humanismus - verzögerte Aufklärung, vol. 5 (Philosophie in Österreich 1920-1951), 2005, pp. 1047-1057.