diff --git a/content/document.ts b/content/document.ts
index 3ebb11d99120..a652bc077e71 100644
--- a/content/document.ts
+++ b/content/document.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
 } from "../libs/env/index.js";
 import {
   ACTIVE_LOCALES,
+  DEFAULT_LOCALE,
   HTML_FILENAME,
   MARKDOWN_FILENAME,
   VALID_LOCALES,
@@ -302,8 +303,10 @@ export const read = memoize(
 
     // The last-modified is always coming from the git logs. Independent of
     // which root it is.
-    const gitHistory = getGitHistories(root, locale).get(
-      path.relative(root, filePath)
+    const gitHistoryRoot = locale === "de" ? CONTENT_ROOT : root;
+    const gitHistoryLocale = locale === "de" ? DEFAULT_LOCALE : locale;
+    const gitHistory = getGitHistories(gitHistoryRoot, gitHistoryLocale).get(
+      path.relative(gitHistoryRoot, filePath)
     );
     let modified = null;
     let hash = null;