Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Germany to Open Holocaust Records

Germany agreed today to allow access to the archives at Bad Arolsen which contains 50 million documents on what happened to more than 17 million people who were executed, forced to labor for the Nazi war machine or otherwise brutalized during the Holocaust. Since 1998, about half the documents have been digitized.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is actually shocking that these documents were not made available and that German government resisted making them so. I would think it would have been a huge story (at least as big as Swiss banks issue). I am really surprised learning about something like this.