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Nazi Victims Archive To Be Opened

Eleven nations including Germany that share custody of millions of files on victims of the Nazi regime agreed Tuesday, to open the archives to researchers, a report has said. The representatives from the eleven countries include not only Germany and Italy, which was wary, but Israel as well.

The group said in a statement after a meeting in Luxembourg, "these amendments will permit the rich documentation preserved at headquarters of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen to be opened to researchers and historians."

According to the report, it`s the world`s largest archive of its kind, based in the central German town of Bad Arolsen, and it covers the fates of 17.5 million forced laborers and concentration camp inmates and has until now been open only to them and their relatives.