Since 1999, a National Nominations Committee has been in existence for the Memory of the World Programme. It prepares proposals for inclusion on the UNESCO World Register. Thus far, 11 nominations have been successful:

• Early recordings of the world's musical traditions (1893-1952) in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (Edison cylinders)
• 42-line Gutenberg Bible
• The literary estate of Goethe
• Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
• Fritz Lang’s classic silent film, "Metropolis", of 1925/6
• Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance)
• "Children’s and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm

• The Waldseemüller Map of 1507, a joint nomination with the Library of Congress/Washington, USA
• The renowned Renaissance library of Matthias Corvinus (Bibliotheca Corviniana), a joint nomination with Hungary, Belgium, France, Italy and Austria
• Letters from and to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz within the collection of manuscript papers of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Song of the Nibelungs, a heroic poem from mediaeval Europe