Evidence-based historical archive
Nazi crimes in occupied Poland: people, institutions, mechanisms
Nazi Report reconstructs the chain from political decision and regional authority to administration, police operation, logistics and postwar accountability. The seven circles describe function and agency—not a ranking by victim numbers.
The English edition begins with the occupation apparatus in Polish territories and will expand only where the source base supports it.
Follow the chain of responsibility
A single persecution operation could involve a ministry, regional governor, municipal office, Gestapo section, prison, railway unit and killing site. These dossiers connect the people to the mechanism.
Regional police apparatus
How mobile killing units and regional Gestapo, Security Police and SD offices connected central policy with arrests, deportations and executions in occupied Poland.
Ghettos and deportations
The administrative and police chain that created ghettos, isolated their residents, organised deportations and connected occupied cities with killing centres.
Prisons and summary courts
How detention, interrogation, a façade of legal procedure and execution operated as connected mechanisms of German occupation terror.
Administration and racial law
How ministries, regional authorities and municipal offices translated Nazi racial policy into law, housing, confiscation, forced displacement and everyday rule.
Plunder of property and culture
How confiscation, inventory, forced labour, expert selection and transport turned theft from persecuted people and occupied institutions into an administrative system.
Seven circles of responsibility
Placement reflects proximity to decisions, command level and institutional function. It does not measure the value of victims’ lives or create a scale of guilt.
- I Supreme architect 1 profile in the full Polish archive
- II Strategic core of the regime 8 profiles in the full Polish archive
- III Designers of the machinery of destruction 22 profiles in the full Polish archive
- IV Territorial rulers and programme chiefs 44 profiles in the full Polish archive
- V Operational commanders 57 profiles in the full Polish archive
- VI Enablers of war and occupation 38 profiles in the full Polish archive
- VII Inciters and local perpetrators 8 profiles in the full Polish archive
How to read the archive
Methodology and sources
See the publication threshold, source hierarchy and rules for separating evidence, interpretation and uncertainty.
Memory of the victims
Why a perpetrator archive must remain centred on the people and communities targeted by Nazi persecution.
Full source register (Polish)
The complete production archive, data architecture and source notes remain available in the Polish edition.