The Deutsche Welle: History in 30 languages

The public foreign country radio of Germany is the Deutsche Welle (DW). Besides the audios, which are broadcasted in different languages, the Deutsche Welle has a huge online offer in 30 languages. You can find on the homepage news and a lot of information around Germany. And besides that, you can find a widespread proposal regarding the German history.

The Deutsche Welle examines the early history of Germany and the Germans, deals with the important and fateful 20th century in our history and furthermore you can find a lot of interesting articles about the history of East Germany.

The topic is structured in different categories. There are articles about life in the GDR and the politic there. The culture and the legacy of the GDR are also topics, which are addressed by the Deutsche Welle. Each of these articles you can read in one of the 30 languages. So they are accessible for nearly every nationality.

But non only articles you can find on the homepage. There are also audios and videos, which deal with different topics regarding the GDR. For example there are videos about “Life at the Berlin Wall” or about “The divided Berlin in comic book form”.

If you are interested in German history in general and especially in the history of East Germany, I can recommend you the homepage of the Deutsche Welle a lot. The offer is really varied, interesting and it deals with a lot of different topics. Some of them are popular, but some of them are really special, too. So for every in history interested person is something at it.