For over 60 years, the Central Office of the Land Judicial Authorities for Investigation of National Socialist Crimes has the
task to conducting preliminary investigations on national socialist crimes. We scrutinise material all over the world, collect it and evaluate the
records. Our goal is to trace perpetrators and accomplices who are still alive and can be
prosecuted even today for their involvement in mass murders of the Nazi regime.
The
ministers of justice and senators of justice of the Lands agreed in Stuttgart in June 2015 that the end of the investigation work is
“not foreseeable yet”. In recent years, we could forward more criminal proceedings to the public prosecutor’s offices
especially against guards at concentration camps and, most recently, prisoner-of-war camps. As a rule, they have been accused of helping to
commit systematic murders by fulfilling a certain function. The investigations conducting by the public prosecutor's offices that follow
from our submissions and main hearings at court show how the judiciary does its best to investigating even today the murders of the Nazi
regime in spite of the long period and legal and real difficulties.
With these
websites we would like to give you a first insight into our investigations.
You can find
Job Openings in the section "Staffing" and
information to the Legal Studies Internship/Traineeship as well as the Compulsory Optional Stage in the Practical Legal Training in the
section "Service".
Thank you for your interest in our work!