British lawmakers received permission to study portions of the Vatican’s wartime archives, said Lord Janner, a member of the House of Lords who has spearheaded British attempts to locate assets of Jews plundered by the Nazis. He said the archives, which the Vatican previously refused to make public, might shed light on financial dealings the Holy See may have had with the Nazis.
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