App: Nazi Crimes — A Digital Atlas

What the app offers

The app NaziCrimesAtlas — Digital Atlas of Nazi Crimes makes Nazi crimes between 1933 and 1945 visible on an interactive map. It references the proceedings of German courts dealing with Nazi crimes after 1945 and supplements them with further sources.

Main features

• Georeferenced map of crime scenes in Germany
• 25,000 documented crimes drawn from court records
• Short descriptions of act, period and victim groups
• Source citations (archives, file references)
• Filtering by crime category (pogroms, concentration camps, „euthanasia" murders, etc.)
• Multimedia content where available (video, audio, images)
• Links to Stolpersteine, memorials and monuments

Film: What does the app offer?

What the app shows

The app shows not only well-known sites such as concentration camps but also everyday crime scenes — flats, town halls, schools, squares — where Nazi crimes took place. The aim is to make visible that Nazi crimes happened across the country and in plain sight.

Crime categories

The literature divides the crimes into established categories. The app offers:

• Crimes against political opponents
• Crimes in concentration camps and places of detention
• Denunciation
• Crimes against the civilian population
• Pogroms
• „Euthanasia" murders
• Judicial crimes
• War crimes
• Mass extermination crimes

System requirements

• iOS: version 13.0 or higher
• Android: version 7.0 or higher
• Also installable directly on Apple M-series computers (M1/M2/M3)
• Storage: approx. 150–200 MB including base data
• Internet for download and updates — core functions work offline