Sean Patrick Maloney: “Our work here is important but it is far surpassed by the persistence that Holocaust survivors, historians, and…”

“Our work here is important but it is far surpassed by the persistence that Holocaust survivors, historians, and researchers have shown in their search for the truth. S. 1379, the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, which passed the Senate, introduced by Senator DeWine, and its House companion, H.R. 4007, which I introduced, will help to reveal some of those truths. The bill sets up a process for the declassification of documents held by Federal agencies. It establishes an interagency working group to locate and sort out all classified Nazi war crime records. The bill also wisely allows for the withholding of information which would pose a threat to personal privacy or national security interests. Under this legislation, the President is required to appoint the Director of the Holocaust Museum, the Historian of the Department of State, and the Archivist of the United States to the Interagency Group created by the bill.”