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Film as an Object of Reflection in the Goebbels Diaries: Series II (1941–1945)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Michael H. Kater
Michael H. Kater
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Central European History , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 391 - 414
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1. Henceforth referred to as TGII.

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37. TGII 7 (6 Mar. 1943), 479.

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97. TGII 4 (15 May 1942), 295; TGII 1 (7 Mar. 1943), 493; (15 Mar. 1943), 554; TGII 8 (28 May 1943), 380; TGII 11 (25 Jan. 1944), 170; TGII 12 (21 May 1944), 333.

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114. TGII 5 (2 July 1942), 40–41.

115. TGII 5 (14 Aug. 1942), 312–13 (1st quote); TGII 6 (25 Oct. 1942), 182; TGII 9 (1 July 1943), 109; (17 July 1943), 116 (2nd quote); TGII 11 (14 Mar. 1944), 469; (28 Mar. 944), 570.

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