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- 1 2 3 4 Detlef Mühlberger, Hitler's Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920-1933. Organisation & Development of the Nazi Party, Volume 1, Peter Lang, 2004, p. 239
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- ↑ Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany, Transaction Publishers, 2001, p. 50
- ↑ Hermann Beck, The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 37
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- ↑ Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, Penguin Books, 1998, p. 263
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