International tracing service opens files to researchers

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International tracing service opens files to researchers

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 01 aug 2006 06:44:56

Bloomberg reports that the International Tracing Service, the biggest
archive of Nazi documents related to victims of the Third Reich has
been opened to researchers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... yEEFha4QDY

The world's biggest archive of Nazi documents, containing details on
millions of victims of the Third Reich, is to be opened up to
researchers as 11 nations amend a 50-year-old agreement to allow wider
public access to the files.

The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, in the western German
state of Hesse, contains 30 million to 50 million wartime documents
relating to some 17.5 million individuals. Under an agreement signed in
1955, the archive is administered by the International Red Cross and
financed by the German government.

Eleven states -- Israel, the U.S., France, the U.K., Belgium, Greece,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland and Germany -- agreed on May
16 in Luxembourg to open up the archive while taking into consideration
the protection of personal data to shield those who were persecuted and
their families.

Today's official signing of the protocol ``is a first step to opening
up to the public the archives of separate states and organizations,''
said Wolfgang Wippermann, history professor of the Free University in
Berlin in an interview. ``The more access and knowledge we have, the
more we can help the victims.''

Today's protocol will allow copies of the archive's documents to be
made available to all member states, which can in turn make them
accessible to researchers according to their national law.

More in story.

The International Tracing Service is here.

http://english.its-arolsen.org/

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Regards to all.

Keith Old

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