Germany and Central Europe
Historical and Contemporary Sites
General Sites on German History and Politics
Primary Documents on German History From the Medieval period to the present.
Habsburg List Homepage Much more than German history, but a lot of that, and links to many resources for the study of Central Europe. Naturally, the central subject matter is the lands of the former Habsburg Empire.
Germany
GenWeb Project Maps. Excellent online
historical maps of Germany.
Topical and Informational Sites
Encyclopedia of Revolutions of 1848. This very large on-line resource is an excellent reference source on, among other things, the German world in the middle of the nineteenth century. The encyclopedia entries are informative and thoughtful.
Postwar Germany and the Growth of Democracy. (.pdf file--1.6 MB) A collection of short, highly informative chapters--designed for use in high schools, with lesson plans attached--which provide a very good background for an understanding of recent Germany. Written by Arthur B. Gunlicks, Regine J. Gunlicks, and Wayne C. Thompson, all scholars of Germany who live in Virginia and who developed these materials in conjunction with the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Thisi Highly recommended.
German Propaganda Archive Very nice site maintained by Randall Bytwerk at Calvin College, with much material from several historical periods.
The Eastern German Studies Group Another Calvin College site kept up by Randall Bytwerk. The group is now defunct, but there is much good material archived here.
The German Bundestag Homepage Some German will be needed here, but there is much useful material, including recent speeches, addresses of German politicians, etc.
The Versailles Treaty - And much more. Steve Schoenherr, a historian at the University of San Diego, has put together a very nice page with the treaty text and many related maps, photos, and cartoons. Professor Schoenherr has also gathered much great material on other aspects of German, European, and American history. See his most interesting Homepage.
Nazi
Crimes
on Trial. This is a site devoted to putting all
the records of the many trials concerning Nazi crimes
online. A work still in progress, this Dutch site has an
enormous amount of primary material and anaylsis online in
German already. The English section, the link given
here, is not as far along, but it still has much in the way of
primary materials to offer the English-speaking student of
Nazi Germany. The manager of this site is Dick de Milt,
Dick de Mildt, Institute of Criminal Law, University of
Amsterdam.
USC Shoah
Foundation for Visual History and Education. This
is Steven Spielberg's video history and video testimony site,
an excellent resource.
Cold
War
International
History Project. This important site, by the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, contains
documents, articles, and other materials pertaining to the
whole period of the Cold War. Most items are related to
documentation from the former Communist world. The
issue of the Germanies features prominently among the
topics. The site is entirely searchable.
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany:_Letters_and_Correspondence
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany:_Royalty_and_Politicians
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany:_National_Socialism_and_World_War_II
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany:_World_War_I_and_Weimar_Republic
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany_Divided_and_Reunified
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Shoah_(Holocaust)
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/primary-sources
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/?f[record_type_facet][]=Film
Others, in no particular order
Foreign Relations of the United States (United States
Department of State). Available in Abell Library in hard copy and
online at several spots. I suggest the following one: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/frus/
One of the outstanding historical document collections on the
internet, The World War I Document Archive, maintained at BYU but
relying on many contributors, is just what it says.
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
A good collection from Professor Richard Weikart at Stanislav
State
https://www.csustan.edu/history/german-history-sources
Collection of documents from the Alpha History site
https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/nazi-germany-documents/
From Paul Halsell's great history document collection at Fordham
University
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook22.asp
Documents related to Germany online at the University of
Wisconsin Library
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=header;pview=hide;id=History.BackgrndDocs
From Jewish History Online
https://jewish-history-online.net/
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School maintains an extensive
collection of documents. Those on Germany can be searched:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp
The Nizkor site, devoted to Holocaust History. Search for docs
http://www.nizkor.org/
Outstanding propaganda archive covering several periods by
Professor Randall Bytwerk
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/
Some good documents not available elsewere, regarding Weimar
Germany
https://weimarstudies.wordpress.com/resources/
The enormous and extremely easy-to-use Nuremberg Trials Project
at Harvard gives any student an enormous body of primary material
on Nazi Germany, World War II, the Final Solution, and much more.
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/transcripts/4-transcript-for-nmt-7-hostage-case?seq=4040&q=schleicher