Germany Divided and Reunified
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- German History in Documents and Images: Occupation and the Emergence of Two States)
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1945-1961; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- German History in Documents and Images: Two Germanies
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1961-1989; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- German History in Documents and Images: One Germany in Europe
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1989-present; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- Hundreds of publications in English and German from the period immediately following World War II.
- Part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
- (Mostly 1946-1960; searchable or browseable database of facsimiles)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (Scroll down to Germany).
- (1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)
- List of the digitized newspaper "Staufen weekly".
- (1875-1978; German facsimiles)
- List of the digitized newspaper "The Time".
- (1946 to the present; German facsimiles)
- List of the digitized magazine "The Mirror".
- (1947 to the present; Facsimiles)
- List of the digitized newspaper Sudeten.
- (1951-1955; Facsimiles)
- (Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents).
- (German transcriptions with German and English translations)
- A blend of declassified documents, photographs and background information.
- (1949-1949; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Sponsored by PBS on the occasion of an "American Experience" show on the airlift.
- (1948-1949; images, interactive maps, newspaper accounts, timelines and commentary)
- Documents of the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany" and then the unified state).
- (1948 to the present; German transcriptions)
- Documents of the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany").
- (1949-1990; German transcriptions)
- Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
- (16 July 1953; PDF facsimiles)
- Found on the National Security Archive.
- Declassified documents regarding Europe provided by the National Security Agency.
- Collection of Soviet and German documents regarding the uprising that began June 16, 1953.
- Part of the Wilson Center's Digital Archive of the Cold War.
- (April 1952 to October 1953; English transcriptions and facsimiles)
- Collection of documents regarding the history of the Berlin Wall, as well as on the conditions in East Germany.
- Part of the Wilson Center's Digital Archive of the Cold War
- (1953-1990; English transcriptions and facsimiles)
- Prohibition of Communist Party in the Federal Republic.
- (August 17, 1956; German transcription)
- "Increasing the Combat Readiness of the National People's Army" [of the German Democratic Republic]
- Note: "DECO II" mentioned in the document was allegedly a West German document
- obtained by East German agents.
- (29 July 1959; English translation)
- Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
- (24 February 1967; PDF facsimiles)
- Speech at the Berlin Wall.
- (26 June 1963; English transcription)
- Including posters of solidarity with Latin America.
- (1970-1989; facsimiles)
- Including posters, speeches, etc.
- (Facsimiles, translations and transcriptions)
- East German Ideals of the Freie Deutsche Jugend
- (1986; German transcription from Die junge Welt
- East German Ideals of the Freie Deutsche Jugend
- (1986; English translation)
- Note that the post-Wall version of Die junge Welt is available online, as is the website of the Freie Deutsche Jugend.
- (1986; English translation)
- Documentation of communications between Helmut Kohl, George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev leading to German unification plans.
- (November-December 1989; transcripts, memoranda, telegrams and phone records)
- Wir waren so frei... Momentaufnahmen 1989/1990 - Moments in Time 1989/1990
- Internet archive of films and photos taken in 1989 and 1990, during the time of the Fall of the Wall and the reunification.
- Website also available in English.
- (1989-1990; images and films]
- German unification treaties.
- (31 August 1990; German transcriptions )
- Site contains large Text Archive with an emphasis on Ostpolitik.
- (German transcriptions).
- (21 January 1997; German transcription)
- (21 January 1997; English translation)
- Growing collection of digitized images from among the 11 million images in the Federal Archive.
- Searchable by multiple access points or browsable by subject.
- (19th-20th centuries; image database)
- Video talks, aimed principally at the German people.
- (German-language video podcasts)
- Federal Archives digitization of cabinet proceedings, previously available only in book form
- Also includes minutes of the Cabinet Committee for Economics and the Cabinet Committee for Social Reform.
- Future book volumes will be followed 18 months later by the digital version.
- (1949 - ; German transcriptions)
- Current press briefings, agendas, minutes & reports of the Bundestag.
- (German transcriptions)
- Speeches and interviews of the Bundespräsident on various topics.
- (2004 - present; German transcriptions)
- Note: Speeches of several recent Bundespräsidenten also available as individual online archives.
- Grundgesetz (Basic Law) in the German original provided by the German Federal Government.
- German transcription with synoptic French translation.
- (German Constitution of May 23, 1949 with revisions through 2002)
- (Basic Law) in English translation (with revisions through 2002) provided by the German Federal Government.
- PDF copy of the Basic Law(with revisions through 2000) provided by the Bundestag.
- (Transcriptions of German Constitution of May 23, 1949 with revisions through 20000; English translation)
- Very thorough links of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany
- (German data and commentary)
EuroDocs > History of Germany: Primary Documents > Divided and Reunified
EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu
