Germany agreed today to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern today revealed his hectic schedule as United Nations special envoy will take him to the Middle East.

A brief entry in one of millions of documents stored at the Austrian State Archives has revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s father was a volunteer member of the Sturmabteilung, or SA – the notorious Nazi storm troopers also known as brown shirts.