Der Spiegel - Germany

• "Exploited State Secrets for Profit": German Intelligence Rocked by Espionage Arrest of Former Chief

  The arrest of ex-BND chief August Hanning has sent shockwaves through the intelligence world. Yet Hanning’s dubious consulting work was no secret. Does German intelligence have a systemic problem?

• Fake Jewish Lineage: The Passport Scheme that Exploited Germany’s Nazi History

  DER SPIEGEL has learned that a large number of fraudsters have obtained German citizenship by claiming to be the descendants of Jews persecuted by the Nazis. The real families are furious.

• New Information in the Nazi Database: What You Need to Know About the SS

  Your grandfather appears in the SS files? What that might mean, how you can continue your research and who was even allowed to join the Nazi organization in the first place: You'll find answers to the most important questions here.

• NSDAP archive: How DER SPIEGEL processed the data from the Nazi card file

  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.

• Interactive Research Tool: What Your Family Did Under Hitler – Find Out Here

  DER SPIEGEL has cross-referenced hundreds of thousands of SS files with the millions of NSDAP membership cards. Here, you can search through the updated files and find clues as to possible SS membership.