Hamburg Military Records

For a comprehensive understanding of military records, study the article Germany Military Records.
 * Military History of Hamburg

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * Germany &amp; Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers - at Ancestry.com, ($). 1500-1939. Index. In German.
 * Germany and Austria, Military and Marine Unit Histories - at Ancestry.com, ($). 1760-1933. Index and images. In German.
 * Germany, Military and Marine Weekly Publications - at Ancestry.com, 1816-1942. Index and images. In German.
 * German Navy Crew Chronicle - at Ancestry.com, ($). 1891-1918. Index. Incomplete.
 * Germany, Torpedo Personnel Register - at Ancestry.com, 1911. Index. Incomplete.
 * German Casualties in the Franco-Prussian War - at Ancestry.com, ($). 1870-1871. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete.

Service Records

 * Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918)
 * Histories of German and Austrain Division,1917-1918. NAID 6487553 National Archives
 * Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Over 8 million records. Records are in German.

Casualty Records

 * Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1917 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Over 5 million records. Records are in German.
 * Germany, Navy Casualty List, 1914-1915 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Records are in German.
 * Genwiki World War I Casualty Lists.
 * The World Remembers - WWI Deaths

Prisoners of War
Cemetery Records
 * Numerical Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918-1919 NAID 6706704
 * Organizational Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918-1919 NAID 1918-1919
 * Lists of German Prisoners of War Assigned to Prisoner of War Company Commanders when Labor Companies were Formed, 1918-1919 NAID 6455801
 * Database of war graves from WW I and WWII German War Cemetery records database

World War II, 1939 to 1945
1939-1945: World War II. Many German records were destroyed.

Prisoner of War Records

 * Prisoner of War Rosters, 1942-1947, National Archives NAID 849166 This collection contains records of prisoners of war interned in the United States
 * Records Relating to Prisoners of War, 1942-1927, National Archives NAID 865093 Includes deaths lists sent to the International Red Cross.
 * Records Relating to German Prisoners of War, 1943-1952, National Archives NAID 876973

Cemetery Records

 * Database of war graves from WW I and WWII German War Cemetery records database