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46. Reibel, Fundament der Diktatur, pp. 50–51, 56–63.

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52. S. Allan Comrades and Citizens: Soviet People (London, 1938), pp. 88–9, 94–5.

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54. Allan, Comrades and Citizens, pp. 257–9.

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58. McKale, Nazi Party Courts, p. 22–3.

59. McKale, Nazi Party Courts, pp. 144–5, 164, 178–80; M. Moll, ‘Steuerungsinstrument im “Ämterchaos”? Die Tagungen der Reichs-und Gauleiter der NSDAP’, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 49 (2001), pp. 236–8.

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63. Schubert-Weller, Hitler-Jugend, pp. 182–3; on selection and admission see the testimony of P. Peterson in J. Steinhoff, P. Pechel and D. Showalter (eds) Voices of the Third Reich: an Oral History (Washington, DC, 1989), pp. 8–9.

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65. Allan, Comrades and Citizens, p. 242.

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67. Gill, Rules of the Communist Party, pp. 165–6.

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74. Roth, Parteikreis und Kreisleiter, pp. 282–3.

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76. Labin, Stalin’s Russia, p. 153.

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93. Roth, Parteikreis und Kreisleiter, p. 195.

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