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.

German History in Documents and Images.  This is an important and extensive site recently launched by the German Historical Institute.

Harold Marcuse's Website at UC-Santa Barbara.  This is an eclectic and wide-ranging site, having to do with the research on and study of German History.

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.

Berlin Airlift Site of the Truman Presidential Library.  This is an extensive presentation of photo materials, documents, and narrative about the Berlin Blockade and the Airlift (or "Air Bridge"), a crucial moment in German history and Cold War history.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Important site of record reflecting the work of the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

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