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. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and ...

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 ...