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Germany Opens Holocaust Archives [8min]

Germany announced today that it has reversed its decades-long opposition to opening what is considered to be the world's largest archive on the Holocaust. It contains information on the deportation, incarceration and death of victims. Guest: Sarah Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"