Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act

Nazi War Crimes (P.L. 105-246) and

Japanese Imperial Government (P.L. 106-567) Disclosure Acts

 

From the 1960s through the 1990s, the U.S. Government declassified the majority of its security-classified records relating to World War II.  Yet, 60 years after the war, millions of pages of wartime and postwar records remained classified.  Many of these records contained information related to war crimes and war criminals. This information had been sought over the years by congress, government prosecutors, historians and victims of war crimes.  In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history.  As a result of this landmark effort, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (P.L. 106-567).  These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) totaling 1.2 million pages, and 114,200 pages of CIA material.  This information sheds important historical light on the Holocaust and other war crimes, as well as the U.S. Government’s involvement with war criminals during the Cold War.  It further enhances public confidence in government transparency.

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