Germany Divided and Reunified

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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.
(1961-1989; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)

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)

Documentary sources of GDR history
Offered as a part of the Internet resource site, Internetressourcen zur Geschichte der DDR
Sponsored by the Thuringian Archive for Contemporary History in Jena.
(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

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)

(1986; German transcription from Die junge Welt
(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.

Held near Sopron (Hungary).
Was this the "picnic that tore down the Iron Curtain?"
(19 August 1989; Hungarian and English transcriptions & commentary, images)

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 )

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)

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)

This site has other links to press materials, laws, and further online publications.
(2000 - present; German transcriptions)
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 Bundespäsidenten also available as individual online archives.

(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.
(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)


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