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- ↑ Rees, Laurence (9 January 2006). Auschwitz: A New History. PublicAffairs. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-58648-357-9 . Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ↑ Reeves, Nicholas (2004-03-01). Power of Film Propaganda. A&C Black. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8264-7390-5.
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- 1 2 Welch 1983, p. 269.
- ↑ Friedländer, Saul (1 April 2008). The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. HarperCollins. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-06-093048-6 . Retrieved 11 November 2011.
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