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Newly discovered WW1 archives at the Red Cross in Geneva


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[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7940540.stm"]I saw this reported on the BBC News this morning[/URL]

These newly discovered archives  deal with the capture, death, or burial of servicemen from over 30 nations drawn into the conflict; personal effects, home addresses and grave sites cover page after page.

All were passed to the Red Cross by the combatants; volunteers logging the information by hand before sending it on to the soldiers' home countries.

Apparently at the start of the war there were 12 people in Geneva doing the inputting, by the end there were 1,000!

Unfortunately it's going to be a while before they become generally available as the digitising processs is only just starting.
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  Are we going to see all the records the Red Cross hold on the  intention to build and the building of the gas chambers.The reports that were passed on to them as to what they were going to be used for .....Their meetings to discuss if that information should be passed on.... and if by doing so.... will it  upset the Germans to such an extent it would effect their work and the countries neutral status ? All this long before people were rounded up ....

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