Archived About WWIl All Accessible?

[IF]

Hi,

Does anybody know whether there are still archives from WWII, from
any of the participating countries, that are still sealed, or available
to only a limited number of government and/or military personnel?
If so, from which country? When (If ever) will they become
accessible?

I recall reading that all American military records are accessible to
the public after 50 years or so, though I could be wrong. I don't know
about those of other countries.

Thanks,
IF

[Roman Werpachowski]

The Bad Arolsen archive in Germany is reputedly closed for researchers.

[Andrew Clark]

"Roman Werpachowski" <roman.wer...@gmail.com> wrote

> The Bad Arolsen archive in Germany is reputedly closed for researchers.

The ICRC International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen holds millions of
files on displaced persons, refugees and former prisoners created by the
occupation authorities in Europe after WW2 - first SHAEF, then UNRRA then
the International Refugee Organization, then HICOG (Allied High Commission
for Germany) and finally ICRC funded by the FRG. These files are not open to
general researchers but searches may be made of them in connection with
specific individuals - the outfit was from the start effectively a missing
person bureaux for non-German civilians involved in WW2 in western Europe.

However, since 1996, files not relating to individuals - background files on
camps and so on - have been opened to researchers and an electronic register
of the individual files is being prepared as a preliminary to opening them
too.