
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152228
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

WEST GERMANS WANT NAZI DOCUMENTS

West Germany is urging the United States to turn over hundreds of thousands of original Nazi documents, but a leading Jewish organization said Wednesday it would try to persuade Congress to stop the move.

The Berlin Documents Center, in the American sector of West Berlin, is the biggest repository of Nazi documents in the world.

A delegation from West Germany held talks with State Department officials in Washington on March 1-2 about the prospects of transferring the center, which is run by the State Department.

West Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, passed a resolution last year calling for the center to be turned over as soon as possible.

The United States has agreed in principle to hand over the center to the Germans, but only once the original documents have all been copied on microfilm. The copies would be brought to the United States. That process, begun several years ago, could be completed by 1994. - Associated Press

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