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Washington National Records Center

The Washington National Records Center (WNRC) in

District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.[1]

Physical records are transferred to WNRC when they are no longer needed by the respective agencies but have not met their scheduled retention period, including the records of the

Armed Forces. Those records remain at the WNRC until acceptance as permanent records by the National Archives, or else they are destroyed and recycled. The records are tracked individually in a database from the time they arrive at the WNRC. While court records are freely available to the public, the majority of records are controlled by their respective originating agency, and all records are subject to the access restrictions specific to that agency and national security classification
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The WNRC encompasses approximately 789,000 square feet (73,300 m2) of space and has a capacity to hold over 3.9 million cubic feet (110,000 m3) of Federal records. Security systems, and fire suppression systems protect the records in the Center.[2] Upon arrival, visitors to the Center must go through security, sign in, and present photo identification at the guard's station in the entrance lobby.

In 2007, the WNRC opened a new Electronic Records Vault. The 976 square-foot vault allows Federal Records Centers to store and service temporary electronic records for Federal agencies.[3] This was after a major criminal fire on Tuesday, 29 February 2000, which destroyed 700,000 pages, as reported by archives officials.[4]

War crimes lists

In May 1986, the

Auschwitz as well as former Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
.

The list also includes German industrialists and factory owners accused of exploitation of forced labor, Jewish prisoners used by the Germans as prison guards, and Japanese soldiers wanted for war crimes by Australia, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian war criminals.

References

  1. ^ "Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD: Services for the Public". Archives.gov. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD: Facility Information". Archives.gov. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ^ Kramer, Alan (June 4, 2007). "National Archives Opens Electronic Records Vault in Suitland" (Press release). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008.
  4. ^ [1]Fire That Destroyed Records At U.s. Archives Is Classified As Arson
  5. ^ "Nazi file found in open archive". New York Times. 14 May 1986

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