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Center for Retrospective Digitization in Gˆttingen (Gˆttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum GDZ) - (dead link) "...for retrospective digitization of library materials as part of an initiative to build a German digital research library..."

  • GDZ Document Server - (dead link)

The Early Germanic Kingdoms
Texts and Archives
Hanover College History Department

G-Text Primary Source Archives
English translations of German documents
From the H-German Homepage

German Historical Museum, Berlin
Includes presentations of previous exhibits

German Literature on the Internet- Text Collections and Author Index
Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries

German Propaganda Archive
"The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists."
Maintained by Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

Glasnost Informations- und Dokumentationssystem Berlin

Guide to Law Online: Germany
From the Library of Congress

History of Germany:  Primary Documents
From the EuroDocs page at Brigham Young University

Illuminations- The Critical Theory Website
"Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory."

International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
The Nizkor Project

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
"Like the long-established Internet Medieval Sourcebook, this project is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history or modern Western Civilization."
Paul Halsall, Fordham University

Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (German or English)
Die deutschen Strafverfahren wegen nationalsozialistischer Tˆtungsverbrechen, 1945-1999.
[Nazi Crimes on Trial : German Trials Concerning Nationalist Socialist Homicidal Crimes, 1945-1999]
English version in progress.
Compiled at the Institute of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam

Kommission f¸r bayerische Landesgeschicht bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Table of contents of the leading journal for Bavarian history, 1928-1998. The site also includes a listing of dissertations.

Lost Art Internet Database
"...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("L‰nder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."
Available in German, English and Russian

The Marx and Engels Internet Archive
An extensive collection of online material

Nazi & Soviet Art
"My goal in this collection is not so much to present all of the best or worst of the art from these movements, but to provide concrete materials for discussions regarding the nature and purpose of art."
By Brian Yoder

Nazi and East German Propaganda - Guide Page
"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access to the primary material."
Maintained by Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
"...to provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)... There are currently 9908 objects from 92 participating museums listed in the Portal."
- American Association of Museums

Nazi-Soviet Relations
A series of documents from 1939-1941

National Socialist Era, 1933-1945
From Mississippi's Historical Text collection

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The International Military Tribunal for Germany
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946.
"Trial against H.W. Gˆring, R. Hess, J. von Ribbentrop, R. Ley, W. Keitel, E. Kaltenbrunner, A. Rosenberg, H. Frank, W. Frick, J. Streicher, W. Funk, H. Schacht, G. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, K. Dˆnitz, E. Raeder, B. von Schirach, F. Sauckel, A. Jodl, M. Bormann, F. von Papen, A. Seyss- Inquart, A. Speer, C. von Neurath, and H. Fritzsche, individually and as members of any groups or organizations to which they belonged."
"The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German ... The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language..."
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Projekt Gutenberg
"...ermˆglichen wir eine ganz neue Form des Zugangs zur Literatur. Unsere Leser kˆnnen B¸cher "online" lesen, nach bestimmten B¸chern suchen oder in Bibliotheken stˆbern.

Project Wittenberg
"...home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises to biographies, and links to other places where words and images from the history of Lutheranism live."

Russell Sage Foundation

  • "The Development of Germany's Banking System, 1800-1914" - (dead link) [.pdf]
    By Timothy W. Guinnane

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
    "Through reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933ñ1945 examines the rationale, means, and impact of the Nazi regime's attempt to eradicate homosexuality that left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more."

University of Sussex - Centre for German-Jewish Studies

Working for Armament in World War II: Forces Labour in Hagen 1939-1945 /
Arbeiten f¸r die Kriegsr¸stung im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Zwangsarbeit in Hagen 1939
- 1945
"The Historical Centre Hagen attempts to call the destiny of the forced workers, slave labourers and POWs back to mind with this website and to create a regional information portal for public discussion. At the same time, a list of sites of camps and prisons in the present district of Hagen is offered, which can be explored with a search engine. A district map contains lists of firms and camps in the Hagen suburbs. A list of source material and the digital editions of original documents will be use in academic and scholar teaching."
In English and German

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