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Let \(f:X\to {\mathbb{C}}\) be a proper complex analytic function with nonsingular generic fibres. The central fibre \(f^{-1}(0)\) is a strong deformation retract of its neighbourhood in \(X\). The author constructs such a retraction with good properties with respect to a stratification. For a real-analytic \(f:M\to {\mathbb{R}}\) with \(f^{-1}(0)\) a divisor with normal crossings in a manifold \(M\) a retraction is constructed by integrating a real-analytic vector field. The complex case is reduced to this one by means of an oriented real-analytic blow-up. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00014].