Methods of opening Nazi archive weighed

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Methods of opening Nazi archive weighed

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 1 minute ago

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - 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.

This week, efforts to lift the 52-year-old blanket of secrecy from this historical treasure are likely to take a big step forward.

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.

So far the archive of 30 million to 50 million pages in Bad Arolsen, Germany, has been used only to help reunite families and verify restitution claims. The files were closed in 1955 because it was feared that unfettered access could violate the privacy of Holocaust victims, both living and dead.

But survivors have been pressing for direct access, unsatisfied with the formalistic and partial answers to questions about the persecution they suffered. So a year ago the commission decided to unlock the vast storehouse for research.

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There are more than likely some extremely interesting things in this Nazi archive. Do you think the *most* interesting thing is going to be a confirmation that Prescott Bush dealt with the Nazis after it was unlawful to do so?

(And, as an aside, I find the whole business of troll accusations to be tiresome and rather predictable. You can be as oblique as you'd like in your accusations, but let me give you preemptive answer to any litmus test you care to provide: I'm quite comfortable in my credentials, and I care not at all about your opinion on that matter. If you'd rather discuss each other's bona fides in place of the actual topic, then we should probably exchange resumes privately and avoid boring the public with a pissing contest to see who can be more liberal/progressive/Democrat than the other. Thanks in advance.)

Do you see the word *most* ?

Know--- you're just making up shit...................

But you *have* progressed from oblique accusations to forthright name-calling, so that's a form of progress, I suppose.