German: Finding Information

The page provides a variety of online resources related to German Studies.  Content for this page has been divided into the following categories:

Archives/Primary Resources

Article Databases

Library Catalogues

Atlases and Maps

Biographical Sources

Dictionaries

Older German Typeface and Handwriting

Other Online Resources

Germany

• Archivportal-D - German archive portal with searchable directory provided by the German Digital Library 
• Deutsche Archive im Internet – Comprehensive gateway site from the Archivschule Marburg.
• Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Gateway to state, private, business, military, church, and specialty archives.
• Bundesarchiv Online - Government repository for documents, photos, film and recordings from 1495 to present.
• Bundesarchiv Images in Wikimedia Commons - A subset of circa 80,000 images from the Bundesarchiv and in higher resolution than on Bundesarchiv Online.
• Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika – Digital archive of German-language Jewish periodicals published between 1806 and 1938.
• German Archives (H-Net) - Resource for finding archives in Germany.
• Nazi and East German Propaganda Archive - Maintained by Professor Bytwerk at Calvin College. 
• Treaty of Westphalia - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Communist Manifesto - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Versailles Treaty of 1919 - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• The Munich Agreements - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• World War II documents - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941 - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• The Potsdam Conference  - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trial - Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• EuroDocs/History of Germany – Important Historical Documents of Germany.
• GermaNet - German lexical-semantic database.
• Das Deutschland Portal - Official online gateway to Germany.
• ZEFYS (Zeitungsinformationssystem) – Large digitalized collection of newspapers from Prussia and the German Democratic Republic.
• MIT Libraries - Link to German language news and newspapers.
• Die Tageszeitung - Daily newspaper published in Berlin.
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Daily newspaper published in Frankfurt.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung - Daily newspaper published in Munich.
• Die Zeit - Weekly newspaper published in Hamburg.
• Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse) – Large collection of Middle High German poetry.
• Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels - Database containing more than 6,000 diary entries written by Joseph Goebbels from 1923 to 1945.
• German History in Documents and Images - Collection of historical materials by period, in original and English translation, from the German Historical Institute

Austria

• Austrian Press and Information Service  - Embassy of Austria, Washington, D.C.
• Austrian Federal Chancellery - Information about the work of the Austrian Federal Chancellor.
• Austrian State Archives - Repository of documents for the Austrian federal government and the former Habsburg Empire.
• EuroDocs/Austria - Important historical documents of Austria.
• Die Presse - Austrian newspaper.
• Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung - Austrian Federal Department of Education, Science and Research

Switzerland

• Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation - Official website of Switzerland's federal authorities.
• Swiss Federal Archives - Source of government information from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
• EuroDocs/Switzerland - Important historical documents of Switzerland.
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Swiss newspaper.

Liechtenstein

• Fürstentum Liechtenstein - Official government website for Liechtenstein.
• EuroDocs/Liechtenstein - Important historical documents of Liechtenstein.
• Liechtensteiner Volksblatt - Daily newspaper published in Liechtenstein.

Germany

• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – Catalog of the German National Library
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – The German depository library for official government publications.
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Die Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
• Kataloge der Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin
• Die Universitätsbilbiothek der Freie Universität Berlin
• Directory of German-Language Catalogs
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog – Gateway to numerous online catalogs in Germany and other European countries.
• Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
• Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund – Libraries in Baden-Württemberg.
• Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)  -  Digital Library of the Bavarian State Library.
• Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum (GDZ) - Center for  Digitization in Göttingen.

 Austria

• Universität Wien
• Österreichischer Bibliotheksverbund
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - National Library of Austria.

Switzerland

• Swiss National Library
• Schweizer Virtueller Katalog  -  Swiss Virtual Catalogue.

Lichtenstein

• Lichtensteinische Landesbibliothek - National Library of Lichtenstein.
• Katalog der Lichtensteinischen Bibliotheken - National Library Catalogue of Lichtenstein.

• Austria Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
• Germany Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
• Switzerland Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
• Liechtenstein Map – A very basic country map.
• Berkeley’s Maps Collection
• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe from AD 1 - AD 2000
• Institut für europäische Geschichte - Historical Maps from the Institute for European History in Mainz.

Neue Deutsche Biographie – Two comprehensive German biographical references (coverage from 1875-present).

• PONS – English-German dictionaries from PONS (via Xipolis).
• LEO – Online German-English dictionary from the Technische Universität München.
• Deutsches Wörterbuch – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's classic, started in 1838.
• Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart – Digitized images of Johann Christoph Adelung's 1808 reference work for German (browsable, but not full-text searchable).
• YourDictionary – Online German-English dictionary, plus links to German translation dictionaries in many languages.
• Das Wörterbuch-net - Listing of specialty dictionaries.
• Wörterbuch-netz Search page

• BYU German Script Tutorial – Resource for leaning older German script (Fraktur) and handwriting.
• Genwiki – Resource for learning older German script (Fraktur) and handwriting.
• Sütterlinschrift Inhaltsverzeichnis – Resource for leaning older German handwriting.

• Germanistik im Netz – Portal for Germanistik. Includes links to information on research methods and digital tools, a digital repository, a directory of scholarly institutions, and more.