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Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’

Summary by The Guardian
Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestryLarge numbers of paper restorers and bookbinders were recruited by the Nazis and “contributed directly to genocide” during the second world war, according to research.A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so…

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the Guardian broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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