During research for his 2019 book Why anti-Semitism threatens us all, Michael Blume came across the Nazi background of some of the terms in the current German phonetic alphabet. The anti-Semitism ...

Germany is restoring Jewish names that Nazis stripped from its phonetic alphabet ... By next fall, the German Institute for Standardization will draft an alphabet made up of city names.

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.

Germany is to revamp its phonetic alphabet to remove words added by the ... for the problematic letters is now in the hands of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has tried to remedy this ... could handle the sounds in French, English, and German. Later revisions added symbols for pharyngeals (e.g ...

The commonly-used equivalent in the UK is the Nato phonetic alphabet, with terms such as ... After that discussion, the new German list is to be adopted in late 2022. DIN spokesman Julian Pinnig ...

Germany is to revamp its phonetic alphabet to remove words added by the ... for the problematic letters is now in the hands of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).