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- ↑ "Die Krise: Parufamet und Gigantomanie". Filmportal.de (in German). 20 December 2022.
- ↑ Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press. pp. 183–184. ISBN 9780520220690.
