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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 "within a few seconds".
"I found out that he became a member of the Nazi Party around 21st of April 1938, just a few days after the Anschluss," when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, he said.
The online tool allows people to search through several million Nazi Party membership cards, the "NSDAP-Mitgliederkartei".
One user wrote on Die Zeit's website: "I've already found two close relatives, which destroys the myth that no one in our family was involved.
"To have my perspective changed at the age of 71 is a bitter shock."
Around 10.2 million Germans became members of the party between 1925 and 1945.
The membership cards, which were stored in the Nazi headquarters in Munich, almost got destroyed during the last days of World War Two.
Die Zeit said that with Hitler's Reich in ruins, orders were given for the records to be pulped, but they were saved by Hanns Huber, the director of a nearby paper mill, who later handed them over to the Americans.
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Christian Rainer, from Austria, told the BBC he found the name of his grandfather "within a few seconds".
"I found out that he became a member of the Nazi Party around 21st of April 1938, just a few days after the Anschluss," when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, he said.
The online tool allows people to search through several million Nazi Party membership cards, the "NSDAP-Mitgliederkartei".
One user wrote on Die Zeit's website: "I've already found two close relatives, which destroys the myth that no one in our family was involved.
"To have my perspective changed at the age of 71 is a bitter shock."
Around 10.2 million Germans became members of the party between 1925 and 1945.
The membership cards, which were stored in the Nazi headquarters in Munich, almost got destroyed during the last days of World War Two.
Die Zeit said that with Hitler's Reich in ruins, orders were given for the records to be pulped, but they were saved by Hanns Huber, the director of a nearby paper mill, who later handed them over to the Americans.
Nazi search engine shows if ancestors were in Hitler's party
Christian Rainer told the BBC he found his grandfather within seconds using the online tool, which also helped clear other members of his family.
