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- ↑ The Safekeepers: A Memoir of the Arts at the End of World War II By Walter Ings Farmer, Klaus Goldmann Published by Walter de Gruyter, 2000 ISBN 978-3-11-016897-6, 242 pages
- ↑ "Review of Farmer, Walter I., the Safekeepers: A Memoir of the Arts at the End of World War II and Popa, Opritsa D., Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex". March 2005.
- ↑ "Review of Farmer, Walter I., the Safekeepers: A Memoir of the Arts at the End of World War II and Popa, Opritsa D., Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex". March 2005.
- ↑ Opritsa D. Popa. Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. xvi + 265 pp. $58.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-017730-5
- ↑ Walter I. Farmer. The Safekeepers: A Memoir of the Arts at the End of World War II. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000. x + 242 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-016897-6