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Here we use an example search to show you how you can search in Archive Portal-D. Our example is about street renaming.

This article explains which sources are available for the post-war period in Archivportal-D. We show you how you can use search terms to find interesting sources from the period from 1945 to 1949.

The Archivportal-D contains information on many different archives that exist in Germany. This article explains how to find archives that contain files and information about the post-war period for a specific location.

Historical events, adverts, classified ads - you can discover all this in the Deutsches Zeitungsportal. This article explains exactly what you can find.

This article explains how you can find your way around the Zeitungsportal, research events or search for locations.

Lernen Sie digitalisierte historische Zeitungen kennen! Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek und zeit.punktNRW stellen in einer gemeinsame Online-Sprechstunde ihre Zeitungsportale vor.

Today, Gertrude Sandmann's drawings are less well-known than, for example, Otto Dix's artistic documentation of the Weimar Republic. Her work provides personal, everyday insights into the 1920s and the post-war period, but they are no less relevant and no less impressive.

Wir laden Sie zu unseren digitalen Informationsveranstaltungen für Lehrkräfte ein!

Right-wing violence is not a new phenomenon. In order to raise awareness of this often suppressed aspect of German history, the online collection ‘Right-wing violence’ is now being created. It will be located in Archivportal-D, a subportal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.

The ‘Golden Twenties’ lasted a short time, during which progressive ideas emerged: open queer life and the emancipation of women seemed within reach. Radical new ideas emerged in painting with the ‘New Objectivity’ and in design with the ‘’Staatliches Bauhaus’. But how queer and feminist was the Weimar Republic really?