Monday, May 14, 2007

Opening of Nazi archive

Opening of Nazi Archive moving forward (AP)

Udo Jost, archive manager, views papers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, April 19, 2006. Germany and ten other nations signed an agreement in July, 2006 that would help open an archive of millions of Nazi files that describe how the Holocaust was carried out to researchers. The 11-nation commission governing the International Tracing Service, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross, meets in Amsterdam Monday and Tuesday to decide when and how to make electronic copies of its files available to researchers. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer, file)AP - As the Third Reich headed to defeat in World War II, the Germans burned millions of records to cover up history's worst genocide. But the fraction that survived was enough to make up the largest Nazi archive in existence.


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