EAN: 9783110661606

TRACING AND DOCUMENTING NAZI VICTIMS PAST AND P...

After World War II  tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of
millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the
Allies  international aid organizations  and survivors themselves took part. New archives 
documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide.
They gathered documents on Nazi persecution and structured them in specialized collections to
provide information on individual fates and their grave repercussions: the loss of relatives 
the search for a new home  physical or mental injuries  existential problems  social support
and recognition  but also continued exclusion or discrimination. By doing so  institutions
involved in this work were inevitably confronted with contentious issues-such as varying
political mandates  neutrality vs. solidarity with those formerly persecuted  data protection
vs. public interest  and many more. Over time  tracing bureaus and archives changed methods and
policies and even expanded their activities  using historical documents for both research and
public remembrance. This is the first publication to explore this multifaceted history of
tracing and documenting past and present.

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