USMA Library Homepage: Foreign Languages & Literature: German

Welcome to the general German page! Below you'll find links to German databases where you can find journal articles on German topics and a brief guide to browsing books on various German topics on our shelves. You are also able to search Scout or the Library Catalog; all our books, ebooks, and journals can be found that way.

German Databases at the USMA Library

Below you will find quick links to some of the most commonly accessed resources, you can always access the entire list of Foreign Language Databases here!

If you are looking for Films in German, check out

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Alexander Street video brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street video titles, along with individual discipline collections in history, art and architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, opera, theater, musical performance, anthropology, health and rehabilitation, opera, nursing, science, women's studies, black studies, LGBT studies, and more. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, and training videos.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
This collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. It focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award winners, and more.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with a large academic streaming collection of over 25,000 films, documentaries, and TV shows, PLEASE NOTE: The USMA license offers limited content on this platform.

To read recent news articles or magazines in German, check out

ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Covering business and management, the database abstracts articles from international publications, academic journals and trade magazines. Provides full-text for most titles.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
Provides thousands of newspapers every single day, extracting text and images and making articles instantly translatable, searchable, and easy to read on mobile devices.Coverage is typically the most recent 90 days.
Access through VPN.

If you are doing research in German, check out

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
This bibliography is intended for students and scholars interested in any aspect, discipline or sub-region of Asia. It is an excellent means for discovering citations and the full-text of Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities. Coverage begins with 1971. (Note: not all citations will include full-text)
Early English Books Online : EEBO This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. Over 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to EEBO. From the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War, EEBO's content draws on authoritative and respected short-title catalogues of the period and features a substantial number of text transcriptions specially created for the product.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Search across all available Gale Primary Sources databases:
Archives Unbound
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2015
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1823–1978
The Times Digital Archive
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of millions of scanned books and other publications. Allows searching of the complete texts of a wide range of books. Shows full page images of entire works where available. Login with westpoint.edu credentials to enable enhanced downloading. Use the "Find in a library" link on individual results pages to locate libraries holding the book.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,500 journals, with full text for more than 300.
JSTOR (includes Books on JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and books in a wide range of disciplines.
User's Guide: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360000063528-An-Introduction-to-Searching-on-JSTOR
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts, most with links to full text, for U.S. public policy research from over 350 think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.

Provided by the Class of 1946.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of databases, many with full text.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 and 1714-1782 This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to government records from early modern Britain and Europe, including many National Archives of the UK documents from the State Papers: Domestic and State Papers: Foreign series and selected related documents from other repositories. Covers the years: 1509-1714 and 1714-1782

German Web Resources

These resources are outside of USMA, but they still contain valuable information. They can be helpful when researching or practicing in German.

Research Resources:

Austrian Parliament online
Deutsch für dich by Goethe Institut the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute
Dimensions: German Language and Literature
Europäischen Union: Deutschland
German History in Documents and Images
German National Library: DEUTSCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
Germanic Languages and Literatures: University of Michigan
www.bundestag.de German parliament
Fluter Jugendmagazin der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Die Bundesregierung Official website of the German government
- bundeskanzler.de German chancellor
- bundespraesident.de German president
Lebendiges Museum Online Online museum of German history since 1900.
Library of Congress collections:
- Piracy Trials
- Yudin Collection of Russian-American Company Records, 1783 to 1946
News Resources
New York Public Library
Switzerland’s Parliament online
Television Resources
- LangMedia videos from international students 1999-2002.

Practice Resources:

Alumniportal Deutschland interactive exercises for learners with basic language skills.
German.net allows you to test and practice your German grammar skills for free.
Slow German podcast
Sublearning Quiz yourself by translating subtitles from your favorite movies.

West Point Center for Oral History: German Resources:

Behind the Lines with Krutz and Corcoran: A Driver and a Tour Officer with the United States Military Liaison Mission
- Charles Krutz & Ed Corcoran
"Dreaming In Russian": Service in Vietnam and in East Germany with the USMLM
- Michael Crutcher
"It Was Like Going Through a Time Machine": Serving in East Germany with the USMLM
- Marilyn Soukup Jones & Brenda Roots Marriott
"James Bond Cars": A Military Liaison Mission Driver's View of the Cold War
- John Stegner
"Loyalty Goes Up and Down": Leading American Soldiers in Service Around the World
- Thomas N. Griffin
"Not Too Much Regard for the Speed Limit": Intelligence Collecting in East Germany
- Douglas Guiler
Peeking Behind The Iron Curtain: A US Military Liaison Officer In Cold War Europe
- Kevin T. Ryan
"There is No Country Like Ours": A USMLM Officer Behind the Iron Curtain Reflects on Service and the Soviets
- Joel Anderson
"We're Just Soldiers A Long Way From Home": Service with the United States Military Liaison Mission in East Germany
- Tom Wyckoff

Please note that the resources listed in this section are hosted by groups separate from the USMA Library. The USMA Library can NOT guarantee access or resolve connection issues to these resources.