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Primary Sources: Germany: Personal Narratives

Sources related to both East & West Germany as well as Germany as a united country.

Online Sources: Personal Narratives

German Heritage in Letters
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A total of more than 400 million letters were exchanged between the United States and Germany during the peak decades of German immigration. These letters are important sources for learning more about the effects of immigration to the United States on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Book Sources: Personal Narratives

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The Correspondence of Caspar Schwenckfeld of Ossig and the Landgrave Philip of Hesse, 1535-1561 by Caspar Schwenckfeld
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Edited from the sources with historical and biographical notes [by] James Leslie French.
The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen by Hildegard of Bingen
Call Number: BX4700.H5 A4 1994 v.1
ISBN: 0195089375
Translated by Joseph L. Baird, Radd K. Ehrman.
I will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
Call Number: PC2064.K5 A3 1998
ISBN: 0679456961
[v.1]. 1933-1941 -- [v.2.] 1942-1945
Letters to his Wife, Written from the Headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71 by Paul Hatzfeldt
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 by Victor Klemperer
Call Number: PC2064.K5 A3213 2003
ISBN: 1842127438

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