NSDAP membership card index now searchable online (faz.net)

• NSDAP membership card index fully digitized and searchable online.
• Historian Raphael Gross: Membership was voluntary but context matters.
• Database is a research tool, not a substitute for nuanced historical understanding.

"The digitized NSDAP membership card index is now publicly accessible online. Historian Raphael Gross says this is progress but does not automatically change Germany's culture of remembrance. The database contains millions of records of party members from 1919 to 1945."