Germany to Help Open Holocaust Records

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Germany to Help Open Holocaust Records

Tuesday April 18, 2006 10:46 PM


By BARRY SCHWEID

AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - After decades of holding back, Germany took a major step Tuesday toward opening Nazi records on 17 million Jews, slave laborers and other Holocaust victims to historians and relatives long anxious for conclusive information about their fate.

Germany pledged to work with the United States to ensure the opening of the archives, which are housed in the German town Bad Arolsen. Eleven nations oversee the 30 million to 50 million documents and are to meet in Luxembourg next month to consider amending a 1955 treaty that has, effectively, limited access and copying.

``We still have negotiations to do,'' the American special envoy for Holocaust issues, Edward B. O'Donnell, said in an interview. ``Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.''

Approval in Luxembourg would require agreement by all 11 countries. The parliaments of several of the countries would have to give their approval, as well.
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[SpiralHawk]

1. Unseal the catacombs

let all the fetid and illumined truths out.

Now is the hour.

[barb162]

2. Yes, it's been about 60 years now

long enough

[Judi Lynn]

3. The timing is beneficial for George Bush, who might gain from looking

less hideous compared to the mega-monster Adolph Hitler and his own murderous, dishonest, greedy fascist associates.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Geez, and people accuse me of being cynical!

[loudsue]

5. They need to open up the Kennedy vaults, also, and FINALLY let

everyone see the whole and real truth about what happened in Dallas that day.

Those records were to remain sealed for 50 years, but recently they decided to wait until everyone who was alive when Kennedy was assassinated is DEAD.

I say, let everyone see everything, and let it get sorted out NOW!

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