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July 08, 1994 - Image 46

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1994-07-08

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AMERICAN
SOGIETY
CANCER'

United States Transfers
Control Of Nazi Files

Berlin (JTA) — Questions of ac-
cess still remain following the
controversial transfer to the Ger-
man government of the Berlin
Document Center, the world's
largest collection of materials doc-
umenting activities of Nazi offi-
cials during World War
The files, assembled by Amer-
ican occupation forces after the
war, comprise some 75 million
documents and include more
than 10 million Nazi Party mem-
bership cards and over half-a-mil-
lion personal documents of Nazi
storm troopers.
Since 1945, the files, overseen
by the United States, have been
a crucial source of information for
historians, Nazi-hunters and
prosecutors.
Amid assurances from Ger-
man officials that access to the
files would remain unchanged,
the United States officially hand-
ed control of the center to Ger-
man authorities.
The handover took place after
the entire collection of files had
been copied to microfilm, with the
copies to be housed in the U.S.
National Archives in Washing-
ton.
Although the agreement to re-
turn the documents to German
control was signed in Berlin in
October 1993, discussions of the
subject began as early as March
1967.
The talks became deadlocked
in 1968 as a result of American
concern over private scholars' ac-
cess to the documents.
Negotiations resumed in June
1979.
The ceremony marking the
handover took place three
months before the last American
soldiers are scheduled to leave
Berlin.
Despite the microfilm copies,
however, Jewish organizations
and members of Congress have
expressed concern about access
to the files.
At issue is continued access to
the center in Germany while the
National Archives completes the
preparations necessary to make
the microfilm copies available in
Washington.
In Washington, Bill Cunliffe,
director of the Center for Cap-
tured German and Related
Records at the National Archives,
confirmed that it will take up to
two years to have all the docu-
ments available to the public, al-
though some of the files will be
available as early as December.
Mr. Cunliffe disputed reports
that not all of the documents
were copied before the handover
of the center to the Germans.
He said that the "front and

back of every file was meticu-
lously" copied and that the copies
are of "very good quality."
Aware of protests in the Unit-
ed States over the decision to give
the German government control
of the center, the new directors
in Berlin insisted that nothing
will change under German con-
trol.
The German authorities said
they plan to extend the center's
operating schedule by two hours,
adding that they will try to speed
up requests for information.
But they also will make it dif-
ficult for researchers to obtain in-
formation on suspected Nazis if
the person has not been dead for
at least 30 years.
Siegfried Buttner, vice presi-
dent of the German Federal
Archives, said it will be possible
to obtain information on living
persons, but that the person will
first be notified and asked for his
or her permission to release the
documents. If permission is de-
nied, the information could still
be given, but an applicant will
have to supply good reasons for
requesting the information, he
said.
Mr. Buttner also said that cer-
tain details of a person's file
might be withheld.
For example, he said, infor-
mation on a woman still living
who was not involved with Nazi
war crimes, but who is mentioned
in connection with a leading Nazi
official such as Joseph Mengele
would be removed from Men-
gele's file before it is handed over
to researchers.
Two days before the docu-
ments were transferred to Ger-
man control, Chancellor Helmut
Kohl assured the World Jewish
Congress of continued access to
the files.

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Woman Heads
Rabbincal Body

Jerusalem (JTA) — One year af-
ter the Conservative movement
ordained its first female rabbi in
Israel, the association of Conser-
vative rabbis here has elected a
woman, Gila Dror, as its chair-
person.
Ms. Dror, a divorcee and moth-
er of three, was born in Petach
Tikva, and grew up in an Ortho-
dox home.
Speaking on Israel Radio, she
termed her election "a revolution,
a step forward. This is the first
time, as far as I am aware, that
a woman will be heading a rab-
binical body anywhere in the
world."

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