The German History in Documents and Images is a collection of historical materials, which document German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present. On the website, you will find important German pictures and documents, mostly translated into English!

Do you speak German? A little bit? Do you like to learn German and are you interested in German History? Then I found a very interesting website for you!

I would like to recommend you a selection of articles, backround features and opinions about the German Democratic Republic.

Today, I would like to recommand you an interesting documentary, directed by Mary Fulbrook. Sometimes I think, it is very hard to find documentaries and literature about the German Democratic Republic in English, isn`t it?

Sometimes, we take history as a matter of course. It happend this or that way, but could it also happened differently?! History is influenced by important human decisions and there were a lot of decisions in 1989. Mary Elise Sarotte analizes these political decisions and changes during the fall of the wall and the German reunification, shows the alternative political solutions for Europe and the political conflicts during 1989 and 1990.

Today, I would like to recommand you a book written by Jens Schöne. "The Peaceful Revolution" was published in 2009 by the Berlin Story Verlag. This publishing house published some interesting books about the GDR in english, like the illustrated book "When there was still an east" by Udo Hesse, "The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989" by the Landesarchiv Berlin or "The Peaceful Revolution" by Jens Schöne.

If you like postcards, I would like to recommand you two links:

The Moldova-Institut Leipzig e.V. publishes in cooperation with the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur an interesting and helpful guide to archives, research institutions, libraries, associations, museums and sites of memory concerning the communistic history in Eastern Europe. It is in english and because of this, it will make the international research much easier for historians and scientist.

The Times published an interesting and informative article about a very well known symbol of the GDR: The "Ampelmännchen". This little green man is a traffic light symbol, which was common in the GDR and "survived" the reunification. You do not understand, why the "Ampelmännchen" is so special? You like to know, how he survived?! You will find the answers here!

Yesterday's evening was characterized bay the famous and popular Sandmann. Dr. Volker Petzold. Author of the book „The big East-West Sandman encyclopedia" (German edition), abducted the audience into the world of the "phenomenon sandman" and he described the background and history of this "interesting, media-historical character".