Germany opens world's largest archive of Nazi documents

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Germany opened the world's largest collection of documents on Nazi crimes and their victims to the public on Wednesday.

The International Tracing Service (ITS) in the western town of Bad Arolsen contains about 50 million records on some 17 million victims of Hitler's Nazi regime.

The paperwork, which includes imprisonment orders, death registers and Gestapo notes, reveals details about people who were murdered in the Holocaust, concentration camp survivors and millions of forced laborers and displaced people. It contains the names of people on "Schindler's List"--hundreds of Jews saved by businessman Oskar Schindler--which was the subject of a Steven Spielberg film.

Until Wednesday, the center allowed only Nazi victims and their relations access.

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[Ian David]

1. They donated to The Bush Library??? n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Every Wednesday, folks!