More than 30 years after World War II; the International Tracing Service (ITS) at Arolsen in West Germany is still gathering information on victims of Nazism with a view to issuing the documents necessary for their identification or compensation.
Each year the number of applications diminishes and the identification of victims becomes more difficult as information unearthed is often piecemeal and inaccurate. However, by minute research and meticulous recording and filing, the ITS has built up its documentary evidence to solve even very old cases. It has processed more than two million inquiries and its records contain information relating to more than 10 million people who suffered persecution by the Nazi regime.
In 1978 the ITS replied to 83,493 inquiries from some 40 countries, mainly from West Germany and Poland, but also from France, the United States, Israel and the Soviet Union.
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