Germany: Accord to Open Nazi Archives Signed

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Millions of Nazi files detailing the suffering and deaths of inmates at labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust will be opened to researchers under an agreement signed by Germany and seven other countries. Historians campaigned for years to overcome privacy concerns that restricted access to the more than 30 million documents in the vast, war-era archive to Holocaust victims and their relatives. The accord was reached in April by the 11-nation governing body of the International Tracing Service, the arm of the Red Cross that oversees the archive in Germany. Israel, the United States and Britain were among the nations that signed yesterday. Germany?s justice minister, Brigitte Zypries, has said researchers would have access by Dec. 31.... More...