Any nonabelian group of order 12 is isomorphic to A4, D6, or Z3 x Z4

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Can someone show me the proof for :

Any nonabelian group of order 12 is isomorphic to $D_6$, $A_4$, or $\mathbb{Z}_3 \times \mathbb{Z}_4$

I've seen a few proofs where this is included in also proving $A_4$ and $\mathbb{Z}_3 \times \mathbb{Z}_4$ but $D_6$ always seems to be left as an exercise.

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There is a nice note on the classification of all groups of order $12$ by Keith Conrad here, see Theorem $1$. There are exactly three different non-abelian groups of order $12$, namely $A_4, D_6$ and $\mathbb{Z}/3 \rtimes \mathbb{Z}/4$. The proof uses, of course, Sylow theorems and an isomorphism property of semidirect products. Special attention also is paid to the semidirect product $\mathbb{Z}/3 \rtimes \mathbb{Z}/4$, which is the group you should take instead of the abelian direct product.