Archives abroad: WWII archive in Germany hands over data to French National Archives

The German archive of the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross says it has handed over to France digitized documents on Nazi persecution and forced labour.

The Bad Arolsen-based archive said in a statement that the French National Archives received documents that chart deportation of French resistance fighters and the exploitation of French slave labourers to the persecution of Jews and other minorities by Germans following the occupation of France.

France is the sixth country to receive the data following Israel, the United States, Poland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

The package includes 13 data volumes each with 500 gigabytes of documents. To date, around 87 million images and over six terabytes of data have been given to different institutions.