The Federal Archives digital picture database contains a continually growing selection of the approximately 11 million pictures, aerial photographs and posters on German history that are kept in the Federal Archives.
In cooperation with other archives and organisations, the central database for personal papers (ZDN) records and verifies complete and partial personal papers from over 1,000 institutions.
Many inventories and other finding aids do not yet exist in digital form and are therefore not integrated into the online research offerings of the Federal Archives. More detailed information can be found here.
The portal offers cross-discipline information on SED and FDGB archives in the Federal Archives as well as the state archives of the former GDR and Berlin.
The information portal for Forced Labour in the National Socialist State offers information on archived materials concerning NS forced labour, its history and existing literature, while at the same time giving an overview of compensation activities and reparation measures from 1945 until today.
The inventory of sources on the history of euthanasia crimes between 1939-1945 gives an overview of the archive materials maintained by several countries concerning organised murder by the NS regime on those exhibiting psychological illness or mental disabilities.
In the online version of the remembrance book, research may be carried out into the names of the victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany 1933-1945.
The online edition of the Federal Government Cabinet minutes enables usage online of previously published volumes of these editions, including a cross-discipline search.
The Internet presentation published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Science and the Federal Archives of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic allows a search across the previously published edition volumes.
In the online catalogue of the Federal Archives, the library holdings of the Federal Archives from the acquisition year 1995 onwards and several older, already converted titles can be searched through.
