US Lawmakers Urge Opening of Vast Holocaust Archive
Found at Deutsche Welle DW-WORLD.DE 3/28/07
See at: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2421521,00.html#
A US panel has approved a resolution calling for the world's largest Holocaust archive to be quickly opened to the public, saying it could help help counter Holocaust deniers like Iranian President Mohammed Ahmadinejad.
The resolution passed by the US House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee is aimed at seven European countries that have yet to ratify an accord to open the roughly 50 million Nazi files at Bad Arolsen, Germany to researchers.
Scholars say the records on Nazi-era concentration camps and the victims of Hitler's regime would fill gaps in history, in part because the archive has testimony of victims and ordinary Germans who witnessed the brutality of the time.
In addition, referring to Iranian President Mohammed Ahmadinejad, the panel said that in light of his "anti-Semitic rhetoric, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world, the opening of the archives at Bad Arolsen could not be more urgent."
Opening the archive "is a vital contribution to the world's collective memory and understanding of the Holocaust," the resolution said. It needs the full House's approval to formally take effect.
Long-debated issue
Of the 11 countries that oversee the archive's administration, Israel, the United States, Poland and the Netherlands have ratified changes in a 1955 treaty that banned the use of files for research.
Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg and Britain have yet to ratify the changes.
The archive's 11-nation steering committee meets in May, and the panel urged members to agree to open the records at that meeting if any ratification are still pending at that point.
The US government and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington have led international pressure to open the storehouse, which is administered by the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross.
In a major step, the German government agreed last year to support the changes. Currently, Italy and Greece are seen as potential key holdouts.
Public access to the records "is a moral and humanitarian imperative," especially because of "the short time left to Holocaust survivors," the House committee said.
The panel is chaired by Tom Lantos, 79, a Hungarian-born Democratic representative from California and the only Holocaust survivor in the US Congress. The Democratic-led committee passed the measure by a voice vote.
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I thought this was an interesting response to the conference Ahmandinejad held. I wonder why use of the records for research was banned in 1955.
Sunshine is an excellent disinfectant.
Let's see them weasel their way out of this one!
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"Money" has no value - people do.
... "Israel, the United States, Poland and the Netherlands have ratified changes in a 1955 treaty that banned the use of files for research."
The most talked about event in the past century, the Holocaust, which was used to justify the building of the state of Israel, to put guilt in the West, to extort money, to porpagandize on Jewish victimhood, etc, etc, and they don't want it researched?????
Isn't exposure, public access to hidden evidence, and public debate EXACTLY what the 'Holocaust-deniers' have been demanding for years so they can iron out the inconsistencies in the official dogma and come at the truth? And yet they were the ones getting smeared, libeled, imprisoned, and called 'deniers' of an event they weren't denying, but merely wishing to look at more deeply without the restraints of the religion of Holocaustianity, or the chastisement of it's priests and temples, the Simon Wiesenthals and the ADL.
I say: Go for it! Open the archive to the public! While you're at it, release Zundel, Rudolph, and all the other Holocaust-heretics from the dungeons of Europe, let them look at the archives freely, side by side with the defenders of Orthodox Holocaustianity, and let them openly and freely DEBATE the issue using the evidence available.
You'd think that this is what happens all the time when history is studied in the universities. Yet documentary evidence supporting Zundel's claims weren't even allowed as a defence in his heresy trial.
The 'enlightened' West has fallen into the Dark Ages once again, and they attack the Persian 'barbarians' for questioning their accounts of history.
Tfoo on you.
will "they" allow and to what documents? I feel relatively certain the only documents permitted for research will be those insuring the holohoax. It is imperative for the zionists to keep the myth in the forefront of everyone's minds. Although, the German archives probably are quite revealing, I would gamble that the Vatican Archives are a much more valuable source, that will never see the light of day.
I'd like to see a museum built for the victims of Jewish Supremacists, for example the 20 million Christians in the Soviet Union that were murdered in the 1920's and 1930's by the Jewish-led Bolsheviks!
How about the millions of people during the last 60 years, either directly by the Zionists in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt - or by their American Goyim puppets in Iraq and Afghanistan? What about the naive and foolish American, British, Canadian and other soldiers who have died fighting on behalf of the Zionists in Iraq and Afghanistan?
What about the millions of "goyim" babies that were never born because of the Jewish Supremacists like Henry Morgenthaler who promoted abortion on demand, as part of their genocidal plan to reduce the number of goyim?
Oh, I forgot. According to their Talmud, they're the only true humans, the rest of us are "animals in human form". A million of our lives aren't worth a fingernail on a Jewish hand! They're the Chosen Race, were not, so we can't have a museum!
Can we please have the full and verifiable explanation why these archives have been banned for scientific research for 60 years?
Whose interests had to be protected?
If they spent 60 years thinking up names to put on the list, working 24/7 with no breaks, they would have had to come up with a new name every five and a quarter minutes to arrive at a total of 6 million. It might seem easy at first, but eventually they would have had to keep a score of the incidence of each name. If the number of repetitions of some particular name was too great for the incidence amongst the general population, the list would look increasingly suspect. If they wrote in ballpoint pen, the Germans would have had to obtain a sufficient supply from British RAF POWs. If they waited until the computer age, they would have had to find a way to make the documents look authentic and generate a name every minute. But the cost : benefit ratio would be too poor to make this a worthwhile enterprise. Buying up the mainstream media was a more sensible move.
The archives could not be made available for the same reason that they did not want an investigation of graves at Treblinka, and even resorted to concreting over the site to thwart investigators.
here's an article I posted earlier that's worth a second look...
Perhaps making up 4-5 million names is more lying than even zionists can handle.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
That article you posted made this article's importance leap into my mind. Prior to that, I didn't know there was such a thing as that archive.
As to all those other comments, I agree that it never made any sense to seal off the records in the first place. What were they trying to hide?
The interesting fact about the holocaust is that many of the "denier" claims are fought, and then eventually admitted. The most obvious being that the number of deaths at Auschwitz was reduced from 4 million to 1.5 million with no corresponding reduction in total holocaust deaths.
Of course, murdering anyone for ethnicity or religion is a horrible crime, but that doesn't give people a freedom to lie about history. To Germar Rudolf, the Germans stand accused of committing the most horrific act in history. They have all been stigmatized and should be allowed to investigate the extent of the crime, and shouldn't be found guilty merely by accusations.
As to the length of time the records were out of sight, I agree that it would be difficult to forge the evidence. Forging the necessary documents would be too great a task, especially given the forensic tools available today.
Of course it remains to be seen whether the archive will be opened.