Nazi Archives Finally Made Public

CNN ^ | November 28, 2007 | Associated Press

[america4vr]

After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past.

The archive's index refers to 17.5 million people in its 16 linear miles of files.

The treasure of documents could open new avenues of study into the inner workings of Nazi persecution from the exploitation of slave labor to the conduct of medical experiments. The archive's managers planned a conference of scholars next year to map out its unexplored contents.

The files entrusted to the International Tracing Service, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross, have been used to find the fate of missing persons or document atrocities to support compensation claims. The U.S. government also has referred to the ITS for background checks on immigrants it suspected of lying about their past.

Inquiries were handled by the archive's 400 staff members in the German spa town of Bad Arolsen. Few outsiders were allowed to see the actual documents, which number more than 50 million pages and cover 16 linear miles of gray metal filing cabinets and cardboard binders spread over six buildings.

On Wednesday, the Red Cross and the German government announced that the last of the 11 countries that govern the archive had ratified a 2006 agreement to open the files to the public for the first time.

"We are there. The doors are open," said ITS director Reto Meister, speaking by telephone from the Buchenwald concentration camp where he was visiting with a delegation of U.S. congressional staff members.

[america4vr]

This is an occasion of historic proportions on so many levels. The one emphatic aspect that goes to the very heart of the Holocaust as irrefutable historical fact has been the meticulous documentation in which the Nazis kept records as part of their bureaucracy of death that has always been a thorn in the deniers' collective-side.

So while the archives have now been made public providing an even greater pool, record of evidence regarding the Third Reich's culpability for crimes against humanity, Holocaust-deniers are of a specific pathological bent that place them outside the realm of sanity and reality, where truth is always the first casualty.

[Paladin2]

Can’t Iran just buy these records for oil?

[pipecorp]

[Popman]

Nazi Archives Finally Made Public

Trial lawyers rejoice...............joking, sort of............

But at least the Holocaust-deniers will have to delve deeper into their delusion to justify their positions

[444Flyer]

Take a look at the REALITY and evidence of the Holocaust Amanutjob,Ahmadinejab, Aminedinerlob. Myth my arse! Tick tock went the clock...

[america4vr]

Trial lawyers rejoice...............joking, sort of............

All instances in which trial lawyers' have successfully litigated, lobbied on behalf of victims have been resolved. The archives shed light on matters that will provide insight strictly from the perspective of history and not aspects of financial remuneration.

[skinkinthegrass]

where truth is always the first casualty....

Hmmmm....that could be said of present day politics.
IMHO...its' much like (all of her) $hrillarys' political campaign(s)..... (Bubba's motive: was the sex / Shrillary's: the power. :)

[america4vr]

Yes,absolutely, unequivocally.

[PAR35]

Vast Nazi archive opens to public [16 Miles of Holocaust Documents]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932635/posts
11/29/2007 11:17:35 PM CST

[Frobenius]

I find it odd that these enormous archives have been restricted for over 60-years...

The article really does not, I think, say exactly the source of these files. It implies that it is SS - records of people caught up in the work, detention, and extermination camps.

Therefore, I wonder why all of the secrecy over all these years.

I am also curious which country was the last to agree to the release...

[Popman]

All instances in which trial lawyers' have successfully litigated, lobbied on behalf of victims have been resolved

Surely there are a few lawyers out there who will look at this disclosure of documents as a license to litigate.

I hope I am wrong

[The KG9 Kid]

Here’s to hoping at least some of them have muddy GI Jeep tire tracks on them and ‘Kilroy Was Here’ scribbled on them.

[america4vr]

I Endeavor to Wear This Hat In A Show of Support For Norman Hsu until He's Either Exonerated or I Grant Myself a Presidential Pardon

[Balding_Eagle]

You think?

It would be my guess that there are still a large number of unresolved situations. Situations where property stolen by the Nazis eventually ended up in the possesion of someone unaware of the train of ownership.

[america4vr]

Thanks for the heads up on the November 29 post. I did do a search before posting under the title of the article with no article results since 2005.

[RedEyeJack]

Will Sandy Berger have access?

[america4vr]

lol. Spoken like a true democ-RAT-basher! Wittiest comment of the day.

[proudofthesouth]

That’s the reason why I can’t call her anything but HITlery. Though I think she is closer to being a female Stalin.

[Southack]

Here's what was deliberately obfuscated by the CNN reporter:

"In 2001 the State Department, urged on by the Holocaust museum, began pushing the 11-member governing commission to open the doors to the rapidly dying survivor population and for research. The decision was adopted in May 2006, but it took 19 months to complete the required ratification process."

President Bush got those documents opened...something that "pro-Jew" Democrats didn't bother with under Clinton and Carter.

Thank You President Bush!

[skinkinthegrass]

Though I think she is closer to being a female Stalin....can you imagine, what the LMSM would do, If someone addressed $hrillary (the she-devil) as Senator Sose. (Soso" was one of aliases of one "Koba", aka joseph stalin, in his earlier years. :)