Netherlands grapples with painful past as WWII archives go public

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Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands’ largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were investigated for collaborating with the Nazis. The release has sparked a great deal of interest, but also public debate. Just weeks before the full archive containing 30 million documents was supposed to go live, the Dutch data protection authority intervened, citing privacy concerns. Our correspondents Fernande van Tets and Alix Le Bourdon report.

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