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What will remain of National Socialism are the crimes.

Dr. habil. Edith Raim (1965–2025) · Scientific Director, NaziCrimesAtlas

NaziCrimesAtlas app shown on iPhone screens: overview, map and detail view — three layers of the app
The NaziCrimesAtlas on iPhone: overview, map and detail view — the three layers of the app. (Illustration: Wolfgang Hauck)

Launch 10 December 2024, Berlin

Introductory film with Dr. Edith Raim †

Video message by Dr. habil. Edith Raim † for the launch of NaziCrimesAtlas on 10 December 2024 in Berlin. Recording: 6 December 2024 in Landsberg am Lech. Duration: 6 minutes. With this video message, Edith Raim opened the project in December 2024. She passed away on 1 July 2025. In memoriam.
Map view of the crime category Pogroms in the NaziCrimesAtlas
Map view of the crime category Pogroms in the NaziCrimesAtlas. More than 3,000 pins mark the locations of the 1938 pogroms on the map of Germany.

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What you can explore in the NaziCrimesAtlas

The NaziCrimesAtlas is organised by location. You see where Nazi crimes took place, which cases were judicially examined after 1945, and from which sources this is documented.

  1. Map view in the NaziCrimesAtlas: locations of Nazi crimes as georeferenced pins

    What happened in my town?

    The atlas covers around 8,000 locations — about 90 percent of all German municipalities — showing where Nazi crimes took place. Search for your home town, your school town, or a place you have visited. You will likely find documented cases.

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  2. Title image — political opponents of the Nazi regime as a victim group in the NaziCrimesAtlas

    Which crimes were prosecuted after 1945?

    The atlas documents around 25,000 court proceedings in which Nazi crimes were judicially addressed — from the immediate post-war years to late trials in the 21st century. Each entry references the relevant court and case number.

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  3. Archival materials, symbolic image — scientific foundation of the NaziCrimesAtlas

    What is the foundation of the data?

    The scientific foundation was the decades of research by Dr. habil. Edith Raim † and Dr. Andreas Eichmüller. Further data comes from the Central Office in Ludwigsburg, the Federal Archives, the Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, and regional, state, and municipal archives.

    About the dataset →

By way of example

An example from the atlas

How does one navigate the atlas? The following clip shows the example of Aurich, Lower Saxony — November Pogrom 1938. Below, the corresponding data record in full.

Animation: navigating the app from the Germany overview via Lower Saxony to record NCA-152 (Aurich, November Pogrom 1938).
Three app screenshots: map overview „Pogroms
App screenshots: overview of the crime category „Pogroms" on the map, zoom on the federal state of Lower Saxony, and the entry with ID 152 showing the textual record.
Record ID:
NCA-152
Crime category:
November Pogrom 1938
Location:
Aurich, Lower Saxony
Date:
November 1938

Arrest of Mrs Katz together with her child in November 1938. Mr Katz was not in Aurich during the night of the pogrom. During the night, the windows of his house were smashed and the front door broken open. At a knock on the bedroom door, Mrs Katz asked to be allowed to get dressed before opening the door, having already stated earlier that her husband was away. The door was simply broken open. Mr Katz was sought but not found. Mrs Katz was taken into custody, scarcely clothed, with her two-year-old child, and led past the burning synagogue to the agricultural hall, the assembly point for the Jews arrested in Aurich. In the course of the following day, she was released together with her child. Jewellery and money had been stolen from her house during her absence.

Source: https://nazicrimesatlas.org/output/events/NCA-152-en.html ↗

The data records on the website serve web-based search functions. For research and archival references, please use the NaziCrimesAtlas app. There you will find for each case the full source references, court file numbers, and contextual texts.

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What is documented

The dataset in figures

25,000
documented court records
8,000
German localities
90%
of all German municipalities

The countless Nazi crimes cannot be captured in full. Yet around 25,000 court records document acts within today's federal territory. They show the scale and detail. In them victims and perpetrators speak through the post-1945 proceedings.

These records are more than documentation: they are an anatomy of the crimes, of the strategies of legal evasion, of the excuses, of the extent. The figure of around 8,000 localities — roughly 90 per cent of all German municipalities — makes one thing clear: it happened everywhere.

Many people today ask whether someone in their family was involved in or victim of Nazi crimes. For the documented cases, the NaziCrimesAtlas offers a first answer. It covers proceedings with locations in today's federal territory. A further 25,000 proceedings concern locations abroad; their digital processing is still to come.

What we show

The app shows Nazi crimes (1933–1945) in Germany

The NaziCrimesAtlas shows where Nazi crimes took place and which cases were judicially examined after 1945 — around 25,000 documented proceedings with crime scenes in Germany, on an interactive map. The app makes the locations accessible on the ground. It has been freely available for iOS and Android since 8 May 2025 and is continuously being expanded.

It is aimed at memorial initiatives, educational institutions, newsrooms and everyone who wishes to contribute to public understanding. Low-threshold via smartphone, locally anchored, democratic in access.

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Coverage

Anniversary film — ARTE Journal

Still from the ARTE Journal contribution about the NaziCrimesAtlas
ARTE Journal coverage of the app launch, 27 January 2026

To mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 2026, ARTE Journal reported on the NaziCrimesAtlas. The piece is available in the ARTE media library until 27 January 2027.

Watch on arte.tv →

In Depth

Films, Lectures, Podcast

NaziCrimesAtlas project team at the launch in Berlin, December 2024

Film contributions and a lecture document the NaziCrimesAtlas: from the launch in Berlin 2024 through the network meeting in Augsburg 2025 to the lecture by Prof. Winfried Nerdinger.

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In Print

The NaziCrimesAtlas Magazine

Mock-up of the NaziCrimesAtlas magazine, 2025 issue
The NaziCrimesAtlas magazine, 2025 issue: digital memorial culture in research and practice.

The NaziCrimesAtlas magazine brings together scholarly perspectives and practical experience in digital memorial culture and the historical reckoning with Nazi crimes. Contributions from Prof. Dr. Hermann Pünder, Prof. Martin Stummbaum, Dr. Doris Danzer, Katrin Kasparek and others.

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Since May 2025 the NaziCrimesAtlas newsletter has appeared at irregular intervals. It reports on project status, events, studies and debates around digital memorial culture — twenty issues to date.

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