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Living Museum Online – German History

01 Saturday Nov 2014

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care packageEver wanted a close look at a CARE package, a pair of POW trousers or other artifacts?

The German Historical Museum, the Stiftung of the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and the Bundesarchiv have a nice website called the Living Museum Online, or LEMO. It combines facts about the eras in German history with eyewitness reports, multimedia and objects for exploration.

The postwar eyewitness page is here. All in German, but there’s still much to explore even if you don’t know the language. The photos and videos are also worth a look. And if you want a look at those trousers, try the 360-degree objects page.

Postwar Artifacts

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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For those of you interested in seeing postwar artifacts, here’s a quick link from my horde of bookmarks.

Nachkriegszeit.de is all in German, and is mostly lists and links of stuff you can look at like toys or clothes or shoes from the mid-40s and so on. It’s run by a group that offers its collections to museums. I don’t know anything about them, but the website is interesting for anyone who appreciates everyday life objects from the past. If you read German, there’s a lot of good information on the site too.