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Interactive Research Tool for Nazi Past Was Your Grandpa in the SS? Find Out in Our Updated Nazi Files

DER SPIEGEL has cross-referenced hundreds of thousands of SS files with the millions of NSDAP membership cards. Here, you can search through the updated files and find clues as to possible SS membership.

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How DER SPIEGEL processed the data from the NSDAP membership card file - [M] Lea Rossa / DER SPIEGEL; Peer Grimm / dpa / picture alliance

How DER SPIEGEL processed the data from the NSDAP membership card file - [M] Lea Rossa / DER SPIEGEL; Peer Grimm / dpa / picture alliance

NSDAP membership card file How DER SPIEGEL processed the data from the NSDAP membership card file

Where does the data come from? What do the matches mean? What errors exist? And what does the date of joining reveal about entanglement with Hitler’s regime? Here you can find the answers to the most important questions about the Nazi card file.

23 Min

Nazi Card Index Digitized The Lies Come to an End

Over ten million people were in Hitler’s party, many keeping it secret for life. Now the registry is online, exposing Grandpa or Grandma with a few clicks. How is this new knowledge affecting Germany?

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"My Grandmother Said We Had Nothing to Do With the Nazis. A Fat Lie." - Nazi-Offiziere und SS-Helferinnen im Sommer 1944 auf einer Holzbrücke im SS-Erholungsheim Solahütte nahe Auschwitz [M] DER SPIEGEL; Foto: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum / dpa / picture alliance

"My Grandmother Said We Had Nothing to Do With the Nazis. A Fat Lie." - Nazi-Offiziere und SS-Helferinnen im Sommer 1944 auf einer Holzbrücke im SS-Erholungsheim Solahütte nahe Auschwitz [M] DER SPIEGEL; Foto: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum / dpa / picture alliance

Familien im Nationalsozialismus "My Grandmother Said We Had Nothing to Do With the Nazis. A Fat Lie."

What did Grandpa do in the war? Many German families spent decades dodging that question. But now that Nazi membership files are online, the time for reckoning has arrived. Here are their stories. by Cathrin Schmiegel und Max Polonyi

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What You Need to Know About the SS - [M] Lea Rossa / DER SPIEGEL; Foto: Scherl / SZ Photo / picture alliance

What You Need to Know About the SS - [M] Lea Rossa / DER SPIEGEL; Foto: Scherl / SZ Photo / picture alliance

New Information in the Nazi Database What You Need to Know About the SS

Your grandfather appears in the SS files? What that might mean, how you can continue your research and who was even allowed to join the Nazi organization in the first place: You'll find answers to the most important questions here. Von Martin Pfaffenzeller und Eva-Maria Schnurr

»Wenn man erfährt, dass der Großvater zuschlug, kann das helfen, zu verstehen, warum die eigenen Eltern so waren« - dpa

»Wenn man erfährt, dass der Großvater zuschlug, kann das helfen, zu verstehen, warum die eigenen Eltern so waren« - dpa

Psychiater über Nazi-Kartei »Wenn man erfährt, dass der Großvater zuschlug, kann das helfen, zu verstehen, warum die eigenen Eltern so waren«

Ein überraschender Fund in der Nazi-Kartei? Hier sagt Psychiater Gereon Heuft, ob und wie man in der Familie darüber reden kann. Und weshalb das manchen Kriegskindern bis heute unmöglich ist. Ein Interview von Kerstin Kullmann

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