Specific individuals from Nazi Germany can usually be located in the fonds held by the Federal Archives if they:
- worked in the judicial service or were involved in proceedings held before the Reichsgericht or another supreme German court between the years 1934 and 1945;
- offered clear resistance against the Nazi regime and/or suffered discrimination and persecution;
- were of Jewish descent, as reflected by the supplementary charts to the census records of 1939;
- were victims of the centrally orchestrated “euthanasia” measures between 1939 and the summer of 1941;
- were part of the Sinti or Roma communities subjected to experiments conducted by the Biocriminology Research Centre within the Reich Ministry of Health;
- were members of the NSDAP – especially the SS – and affiliated associations, or worked in the cultural sector during the Third Reich and were therefore members of the Reich Chamber of Culture;
- were resettled as so-called “ethnic Germans” from Central, Eastern or South-East Europe into the Reich territory or the occupied eastern territories and a naturalisation procedure was launched at the Central Immigration Office (EWZ).