Germany to Open Holocaust Archives

Exciting — and long overdue — news: Germany has agreed to open its Holocaust archives in Bad Arolsen to historians and the public. The archives, which have long been used by the International Red Cross to trace missing and dead Jews, contain between 30 and 50 million documents.

I hope Roger will offer us his thoughts on this development, given his stint as senior legal advisor with the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, the tribunal established to resolve claims to Holocaust-era dormant Swiss bank accounts.