Interesting, there's also this older (dated 2008) D-specific article: http://www.heise.de/developer/artikel/D-die-neue-Programmiersprache-mit-C-Wurzeln-227070.html
Autotranslation isn't too good but it's bearable: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fdeveloper%2Fartikel%2FD-die-neue-Programmiersprache-mit-C-Wurzeln-227070.html