13 documents from Germany currently encompass the World Documentary Heritage.

The 13 German contributions document the variety of the German contributions to cultural history in the diversity of their contents, forms and places of recording.

1999: Sound recordings of traditional music 1893 - 1952 (Edison cylinder) from the Berlin Phonogram Archive
2001: Gutenberg Bible
2001: Goethes literarischer Nachlass
2001: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
2001: Fritz Lang's classic silent movie Metropolis
2003: Reichenau manuscripts
2005: Fairy Tales for Children and Families by the Brothers Grimm
2005: Waldseemüller map of 1507
2005: Renaissance library of Mathias Corvinus (Bibliotheca Corviniana)
2007: Correspondence of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
2009: The Nibelungenlied (epic poem)
2011: Benz Patent of 1886
2011: Documents on the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-plus Four Treaty