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- ↑ 'Adolf Hitler tat sein Möglichstes'
- ↑ Graham Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, IB Tauris, 2007, p. 111
- ↑ Damir Skenderovic, The radical right in Switzerland: continuity and change, 1945-2000, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 280
- ↑ Skenderovic, The radical right in Switzerland, p. 279
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