New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr411ndee7yo
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New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr411ndee7yo
Posted by BSBDR
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Looks like it is behind a paywall, or I’m doing something wrong.
[link](https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-04/nsdap-mitgliederkartei-karteikarten-familienmitglieder-suche)
The direct link to the website is: [https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-04/nsdap-mitgliederkartei-karteikarten-familienmitglieder-suche](https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-04/nsdap-mitgliederkartei-karteikarten-familienmitglieder-suche)
It’s in German, and you are supposed to be be a subscriber to the publication, Die Zeit. But I was able to use it via the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox, fwiw.
Great. Now do one for members of the AFD.
Unsurprisingly, parts of my family back then were also party members. Even though that was very common at the time, it still hits quite a lot.
My gand granddad was a socialist and was send to Stalingrad in a penal companie… He died there and ny grandma only learned in 2009 what actually hapoened to him (before he was MIA)… He died of yellow fever and his death certificat was filled in with his nickname instead of his last name.
The search is quite annoying. It only points you to long PDF files that you have to manually look through. I don‘t get why they didn‘t digitize them properly
I still think it’s funny, and I know that the list is incomplete, but I know for a fact, that my great grandfather was a member of the NSDAP (and a murderer) but I can’t find him in that engine.
Is there a better way than to search all 3000 PDF pages?