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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.
DER SPIEGEL has prepared millions of NSDAP membership cards for easy searchability. You can find out more about your own family’s history and build a personal file.
Cerberus has their go-bag ready. Adrian is prepared to move at a moment's notice. Debra Guckenheimer has already fled the US with her nonbinary children. The GOP transgender assault is driving people from their homes - and their country.
Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of the imprisoned Venezuelan strongman, speaks to a Western media outlet for the first time about his father's mistakes and his own underestimation of US power.
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.
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