Ten thousand envelopes containing money, valuables, identification papers, and family photographs of Nazi victims have been discovered by an Allied search team in a freight car at Husum, in Schleswig-Holstein, it was revealed here. The envelopes bear the names, ages, and nationalities of the victims and are expected to throw light on the “disappearance” of many deportees from a number of occupied countries.
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