How did people persecuted by the National Socialist regime and their descendants receive compensation? Did they get back their former property? How did „Wiedergutmachung” look like after the fall of the National Socialist regime? The new podcast „The German Wiedergutmachung” tries to answer these and other questions.

The Online Collection offers an overview of information on the most relevant archival holdings on Wiedergutmachung for National Socialist Injustice. 

The list of the most important laws, legal provisions, ordinances and agreements on the topic of Wiedergutmachung will be frequently updated. Whenever possible, you can have access either to a PDF or to an online document.

Eight families from Argentina, England, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands and the USA visited Munich from November 4 to 8, 2024. As descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis, they followed in the footsteps of their family members who once lived in the Bavarian capital. The exploration of their Munich roots also took them to the Main Bavarian State Archives

For more than two years, the Online Collection „Wiedergutmachung for National Socialist Justice” has been online. It all started with an overview of the relevant archival holdings from German state archives. Frequent updates followed, with a current focus on holdings from municipal archives. From now on, users also have the option to search for individual records.