A collection of primary source documents related to the East German uprising of June 1953.

Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers a primary source record of a German imperialist organization's reasons to imperialize.

The text of the German declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941, following the US declaration of war on Japan.

Read this official German document, translated into English, from 1917 concerning the issue of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I.

Read this harrowing account of a German-American farmer whose nativist neighbors suspected his alliegiance to the United States after the country entered the war against Germany in World War I.

This is an introductory course teaching the basics of the German language. You'll learn some basic expressions that you will find very useful in everyday interactions, such as greetings, courtesy expressions, and simple questions that...

Text of President Wilson's First Warning to the Germans, February 10, 1915.

This site from The History Place contains the text of the German Declaration of War against the United States. The information is somewhat brief, but link are provided to additional information.

A scanned copy of the 1856 publication of German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, a fairy tale book for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Curiosity: The Story of a German Christmas by J.M. Callwell (c1884), a children's novel.

September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...

Fordham University provides a series of excerpts of primary source documents about the Unificatoin of Germany from 1848 to 1871.

This collection of visual and printed propaganda material from 1933 to 1989 centers around the rise of the Nazi Party, World War II from the Nazi perspective, and East German Communism.

Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...

Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...

Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...

This site presents speeches by Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker. It also details his words to the congresses of the Free German Youth between 1985 and 1989.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Woodland Gossip: A Translation from German by Mary Boyle (1864), a children's novel.

Resource includes the text to Adolf Hitler's speech to the German people declaring war against Russia in 1941.

Original document. Contains the German-Japanese agreement and supplementary protocol which was signed at Berlin on November 25, 1936.

These lessons will help you if you are planning a trip to Germany and could use a helpful traveler's phrasebook with hundreds of essential words and phrases.

This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.

The original text of President Wilson's Protest to Germany, July 21, 1915.

German U-boat attacks made it increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain its neutrality in World War II. Read Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech given on September 11, 1949, in response to the German attack on the US destroyer,...