Christian Rainer told the BBC he found his grandfather within seconds using the online tool, which also helped clear other members of his family.

Platner said he got the ink in question while deployed overseas with the Marines in 2007 and had it covered up in 2025.

A new German online search engine is helping people to discover if their ancestors were members of the Nazi Party. Christian Rainer, from Austria, told the BBC he found the name of his grandfather ...

We digitize and analyze the near-universe of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) membership records and link them to population and industrial censuses. Four findings emerge. First, as ...

For many families in Germany, the past is not just history in books. It is something that sits quietly in conversations between generations.

On the evening of March 5, 1933, the inhabitants of Oberstdorf, a Bavarian village some 100 miles southwest of Munich, began making their way to the marketplace, eager to hear what their mayor had to ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday joined outrage over Elon Musk’s endorsement of the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been criticized as a neo-Nazi group, ...

He’s dined with a white supremacist. He’s invoked theories espoused by Nazis in their quest for racial purity. His response to white supremacists marching in Charlottesville? There were “very fine ...