Useful resources

This page provides a list of useful resources and interesting sites. Please use the contact form for suggestions for other resources.

Index of content on this site:

• People mentioned in the correspondence

• Books and cultural references mentioned

Helpful resources

• Transkribus - an excellent online resource to help transcription of handwriting

• DeepL - excellent AI for translation of text. Recommend using it in combination with other translation services

Other sites that inspire

• Zeitstimmen - a fabulous site with history and personal stories of people in the German state of Brandenburg. The site has published Meta Brandenburger’s wartime notes also available on this site.

• Alltag Im Krieg - Three collections of historical letters from Germany spanning the 1930s and 1940s comprising around 5,000 well-preserved handwritten letters.

• Nancy Gohring - a personal blog about letters from the two world wars.