12/04/2020 December 4, 2020. D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically.

In German passports, names appear in uppercase, meaning that until now, someone with the surname Großmann has had to put up with the humiliation of being confused with a Grossmann.

But this is not the only version of a phonetic alphabet to have existed, with the first German version going back to the 1890 Berlin telephone book, in which every letter was assigned a number. In ...

Germany is to revamp its phonetic alphabet to remove words added by the Nazis. Before the Nazi dictatorship some Jewish names were used in the phonetic alphabet - such as "D for David", "N for ...

It's not every day that a new letter of the alphabet comes along. But, last Monday, an addition to the German alphabet emerged blinking into the daylight after a campaign lasting 130 years - to a ...

Video about the alphabet. Henning takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö.