Germany set to open key Holocaust records
By Barry SchweidAssociated PressPublished April 19, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Germany took a major step Tuesday toward opening Nazi records on 17million Jews, slave laborers and other Holocaust victims to historians and relatives who want conclusive information about their fates.
Germany pledged to work with the U.S. to ensure the opening of the archives, which are in the German town of 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 limited access and copying.
"We still have negotiations to do," the American special envoy for Holocaust issues, Edward O'Donnell, said in an interview. "Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible."
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