Germany agreed today to allow access to a vast trove of information on what happened to more than 17 million people who were executed, forced to labor for the Nazi war machine or otherwise brutalized during the Holocaust.The German government announced at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum here that it is dropping its decades-long resistance to opening the archives in the town of Bad Arolsen. The files stretch for more than 15 miles, hold up to 50 million documents and make up one of the largest Holocaust archives in the world.
I had no idea that there were still sealed records- shows what I know. Germany, to their credit, has done a far better job of showing contrition for their war atrocities than Japan has. While this move is long overdue, better late than never.
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