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To: KLP who wrote (756631)	12/30/2006 4:17:07 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I'm sure there are various troves of Nazi-era documents that have been classified and locked-up from public view.... (Certainly both Stalin and the US and British government had their reasons for doing so at the time to a lot of records... for example as an incident result of the competition to 'import' German rocket scientists and physicists, such as gave birth to our space programs....) Perhaps the Federation of American Scientists [FAS.org, I believe], which administers a project called the Secrecy Project, might be a good place to start looking for such archives, and researching the regulations and restrictions which have impeded access to such information? However, this particular archive appears (from that news item) to actually be administered by the Red Cross: "Last April the 11-nation governing body of the International Red Cross' International Tracing Service, which administers the archive, agreed to expand access, overcoming the German privacy concerns that had kept it closed for 50 years." "The signatories to the agreement are Germany, the United States, Israel, Britain, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands. Now a ratification process is under way in most of those countries. The signatures of the United States and Israel constitute ratification...."