Germany to open up holocaust archives

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

German justice minister Brigitte Zypries said at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum that her country would work with the United States to ensure the opening of the archives, held in the German town of Bad Arolsen, and allow historians and survivors access to 30 to 50 million documents.