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German website with video and oral histories

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  1. KJ Jr

    KJ Jr Well-Known Member

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    Been visiting this site recently.

    The Memory of a Nation contains a considerable amount of photos, oral histories and videos. Since my German is spotty, the site does need to be translated for some. The videos can be subtitled in English.

    http://www.gedaechtnis-der-nation.de/erleben
     
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    Nice find!

    But, the English subtitles leave a lot to be desired. Sometime you can make out the gist of the sentence and sometimes the subtitles are laugh-out-loud funny.

    "This is a height where vulgarity wide grandmothers when I was a little kid"

    Really wish I would have taken German in high school.
     
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    KJ Jr Well-Known Member

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    LOL, Your right. Some are better than others.
     
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    Yet another reason I wish I could speak/read German. I took a German reading course in graduate school, but all of that is gone now. My husband speaks German fluently (he was stationed there with the army in the 90s), but I doubt he wants to sit and watch all these with me and act as translator. :)

    Still, great find!
     
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