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Releases issued by the NaziCrimesAtlas
These are the press releases issued by the NaziCrimesAtlas and its host organisation dieKunstBauStelle e. V. — with full text, facts and figures, sources and press contact. Coverage of the project by other media is collected in the press review.
After 81 years: thousands of denunciation case files publicly accessible for the first time NaziCrimesAtlas opens access to 8,201 cases concerning denunciation under National Socialism: why the south of the map remains empty
To mark the 88th anniversary of the November pogroms, the NaziCrimesAtlas is making 8,201 court cases concerning denunciation digitally accessible on 9 November 2026; the atlas now comprises 18,348 documented events drawn from criminal proceedings of the post-war German judiciary. The uneven distribution on the map goes back to post-war law: in the American occupation zone, German courts were generally not permitted to prosecute denunciations under Control Council Law No. 10.
80 years after V-E Day, a mobile atlas puts 25,000 Nazi crime cases on the map The bilingual NaziCrimesAtlas app lets anyone search verified court records — from the November pogroms of 1938 to end-phase crimes — on a smartphone, anywhere in the world.
Launched on 21 May 2025, the NaziCrimesAtlas app opens more than 25,000 adjudicated cases at over 8,000 locations across present-day Germany, free of charge and in English and German. The launch coincided with the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe; the first data layer covers the cases concerning the November pogroms of 1938, with a geolocation mode and a bilingual interface.
Project “Digital Atlas of Nazi Crimes”: an app against forgetting (in German) Many crimes of the Nazi era survive only in court files. A digital atlas, available through an app, opens them up; the project was presented in Berlin.
The project presented in Berlin: the map of present-day Germany makes accessible the sites of around 25,000 criminal proceedings at some 8,000 locations, conducted by German courts after 1945 for Nazi crimes. With quotations from Dr habil. Edith Raim (scholarly direction), Wolfgang Hauck (project lead) and Leonore Martin (EVZ Foundation).
NaziCrimesAtlas: the crimes of National Socialism mapped digitally (in German) dieKunstBauStelle e. V. is documenting Nazi crimes on a digital map, based on the criminal proceedings conducted by German courts after 1945. The project was presented on 10 December 2024 at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin.
The project was presented in Berlin on 10 December 2024. Scholarly direction lay with Dr habil. Edith Raim; her fifteen years of research provide the data: more than 50,000 records covering around 25,000 proceedings at some 8,000 locations. The project is funded by the EVZ Foundation under its “Education Agenda on Nazi Injustice” programme with funds from the Federal Ministry of Finance; its partners are the Anne Frank Zentrum and BerlinHistory e. V. The release still announced the project under its working name “NaziCrimesApp”.
Press contact
Wolfgang Hauck, project lead NaziCrimesAtlasMobile +49 152 266 303 03
info@nazicrimesatlas.org