William Niven, "The Birth of Nazi Drama?: Thing Plays", in John London, ed., Theatre Under the Nazis, Manchester / New York: Manchester University, 2000, ISBN9780719059124, pp. 54–95, pp. 55, 58.
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Kurze Geschichte des deutschen Theaters, UTB für Wissenschaft 1667, 2nd ed. Stuttgart: Francke, 1999, ISBN9783772016912, Volume 3, p. 293(in German).
Taylor, pp. 217–18 points out that this attitude was more pronounced among certain leaders of the movement than in general, but that some historians share that view, for example Hans-Jochen Gamm, Der braune Kult: das Dritte Reich und seine Ersatzreligion, Hamburg: Rütten und Loening, 1962, OCLC705801.
Deutsche Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert: Strukturen und Gestalten, ed. Hermann Friedmann and Otto Mann, 4th ed. Heidelberg: Rothe, 1961, OCLC631677031, Volume 1 Strukturen, p. 153 (in German).