Nazi files on display at Holocaust museum
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About 500,000 digitized microfilm images with more than 10,000 case files in multiple languages on Adolf Hitler and other war criminals across Europe and Asia, are now open to public viewing, the Associated Press reports from Washington.
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| Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini looks at pictures of Holocaust victims at the Hall of Names on July 16 during her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem commemorating the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi forces during World War II. [Photo: China Daily/AFP] |
From Adolf Hitler down to petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war crimes were eventually written up in vast reams of investigative files-files that now, for the first time, can be viewed in their entirety by the public.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has obtained a full copy of the UN War Crimes Commission archive that has largely been locked away for the past 70 years under restricted access at the United Nations. On Thursday, the museum announced it has made the entire digital archive freely available to visitors in its research room.
About 500,000 digitized microfilm images with more than 10,000 case files in multiple languages on Adolf Hitler and other war criminals across Europe and Asia, are now open to public viewing. The Associated Press reports from Washington.
From Adolf Hitler down to petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war crimes were eventually written up in vast reams of investigative files-files that now, for the first time, can be viewed in their entirety by the public.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has obtained a full copy of the UN War Crimes Commission archive that has largely been locked away for the past 70 years under restricted access at the United Nations. On Thursday, the museum announced it has made the entire digital archive freely available to visitors in its research room.
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