** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.

** Abwehr conspirators Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster and Hans Dohanyi are hanged at Flossenberg concentration camp, along with pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

** Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian ( hanged ) ( b. 1906 )

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor ( d. 2012 )

** Dietrich I of Isenberg, count of Limburg

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

** Thomas H Dietrich, Republican

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicas Wien for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Schubert: Lieder

** Thomas Frost ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside & the New York Philharmonic for Concert of the Century

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Brahms: Die Schone Magelone

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Jean Chatauret ( engineer ), Kent Nagano ( conductor ), Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Torsten Kerl & the Orchestre de l ' Opera Nationale de Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust

** Karl Böhm ( conductor ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck

** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicus Wien for Bach: St Matthew Passion

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Jean Chatauret ( engineer ), Kent Nagano ( conductor ), Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Torsten Kerl & the Orchestre de l ' Opera Nationale de Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust

** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin

** Karl Böhm ( conductor ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Brahms: Die Schone Magelone

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Schubert: Lieder

** Thomas Frost ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside & the New York Philharmonic for Concert of the Century

** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

** Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament

** The Bunsen – Kirchhoff Award, a German award for spectroscopy

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

** State Diet ( In German: Landtag ), state parliament of most of the German federated states

** The Diet of the Empire ( In German: Reichstag ), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871 – 1917

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

** Ruodlieb ( Latin ), by a German author

** Nibelungenlied ( Middle High German )

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

** Old High German literature ( 750-1050 )

** Middle High German literature ( 1050 – 1300 )

** Late medieval German literature / Renaissance ( 1300 – 1500 )

** Eighteenth-and 19th-century German literature

** 20th century German literature

** Contemporary German literature ( 1989 -)

** The Kingdom of Prussia became part of the German Empire.

** The Pferdestärke PS ( German translation of horsepower ) is a name for a group of similar power measurements used in Germany around the end of the 19th century, all of about one metric horsepower in size.

** German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914

** German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1929