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Washington National Records Center

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Washington National Records Center

The Washington National Records Center (WNRC) in Suitland, Maryland, stores and references records of U.S. Federal agencies located in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.[1]

Physical records are transferred to WNRC when they are no longer needed by the respective agencies but have not met their scheduled retention period, including the records of the Federal Courts in DC and the Armed Forces. Those records remain at the WNRC until acceptance as permanent records by the National Archives, or else they are destroyed and recycled. The records are tracked individually in a database from the time they arrive at the WNRC. While court records are freely available to the public, the majority of records are controlled by their respective originating agency, and all records are subject to the access restrictions specific to that agency and national security classification.

The WNRC encompasses approximately 789,000 square feet (73,300 m2) of space and has a capacity to hold over 3.9 million cubic feet (110,000 m3) of Federal records. Security systems, and fire suppression systems protect the records in the Center.[2] Upon arrival, visitors to the Center must go through security, sign in, and present photo identification at the guard's station in the entrance lobby.

In 2007, the WNRC opened a new Electronic Records Vault. The 976 square-foot vault allows Federal Records Centers to store and service temporary electronic records for Federal agencies.[3] This was after a major criminal fire on Tuesday, 29 February 2000, which destroyed 700,000 pages, as reported by archives officials.[4]

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A lot of people think there’s one data base that the government maintains that contains information on everyone and all is you need to do is key in one Social Security number and you’ll find out all there is to know about somebody. That’s not at all how it works. My name is Scott Levins. I’m the director of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, which is an office of the National Archives. The records that we hold date back to the Spanish-American War through about the year 2000, depending on the branch of service involved. We have 56 million official military personnel folders. Our responsibility is to preserve these personnel records. But also to make them available to veterans and other interested people who need them today. I’m Bruce Bronsema. I was in the Air Force for 24 years. Here at the National Archives in St. Louis, I work in the military records section. It’s a really simple process to get your records. Come to the Archives website and that’s www.archives.gov. Click on the link and find the item that says “Request records online with e-Vet Recs.” We receive four to five thousand requests every day. They might come from veterans, their next of kin, potential employers, members of Congress, national cemeteries. Now we’re ready to fill out our service information. First they’ll ask who you are, veteran or next of kin. I was in the Air Force, so I selected Air Force. And I was active duty, so I’m going to select active. I’m requesting an undeleted report of separation, DD Form 214. I’m also going to include in the comments section a request for my DD form 215. Sometimes we may have difficulty trying to find your records, so it’s very important to include other contact information such as your telephone number or e-mail address. And in a few moments a signature page will appear. You must print this page out and either fax it or mail it to us to verify that you are the person requesting your records. Without the signature page, signed, we cannot complete your request. It’s that simple. I get the request. I locate it on the computer. And there’s Bruce Bronsema’s record. And I print out a sheet. And then from there I hand it over to a search clerk who then takes care of it by going out to pull the record. People often ask why we don’t just digitize all the paper instead of having to build large buildings to store the records. And the reason is it would take thousands of staff years of labor to even prepare the records to be filmed or to be digitized. I am a searcher. I handle 240 records a day in an eight-hour day. Constantly moving, going up and down the ladder. It keeps you busy. Bruce Bronsema asked for a copy of his DD Form 214 and a copy of his DD Form 215. The first thing I do is I check to make sure I have the correct veteran. Each case is assigned a unique bar code, from the moment the case is created. The bar code gets scanned at each step. That bar code allows us to trace the record and the request until it is out of the door. There are often times when I have to call a veteran. I might not have a signature, or I might need additional information to locate what they’re requesting of me. I want to make sure that I send out the best copies that we can provide. We seal each document before they are sent out. I want the veteran to know who I am and if they have any problems or concerns they can call up and they can reach me. I include all the documents that are needed. Put them in an envelope, make sure I put my bar code and my label on the envelope and I’ve completed my case. Almost half of the reference requests that we receive are from veterans who are looking for a DD Form 214 to pursue an entitlement. Ninety percent of those cases are done in ten business days or less and most of them are done in about six days.

War crimes lists

In May 1986, the New York Times headlined that master lists of more than 36,000 files of war criminals, suspects and witnesses had been discovered on an "open shelf" in the military archive, that were kept secret in the United Nations archives for nearly 40 years.[5] The United Nations War Crimes Commission operated in London from 1943 to 1948, and collected evidence on war crimes committed by the governments of its 17 members at the time. While investigating the charges, a case file on each individuals or unit was opened. The lists, consisting of around 3,000 pages in total, were found accidentally on a shelf in the basement of the WNRC by Richard L. Boylan, an archivist, while searching for other documents. "It didn't strike me as anything special, because they have been available," he said. There are 80 mimeographed lists in total, that were assembled chronologically by the United Nations War Crimes Commission from 1943 to 1948. The lists contain major WWII figures such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and some of the most wanted Nazi war criminals sought by governments worldwide, amongst them Alois Brunner, a former deputy of Adolf Eichmann, Walter Kutschmann, a former Gestapo leader, Dr. Hans Wilhelm König, a former deputy of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz as well as former Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.

The list also includes German industrialists and factory owners accused of exploitation of forced labor, Jewish prisoners used by the Germans as prison guards, and Japanese soldiers wanted for war crimes by Australia, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian war criminals.

References

  1. ^ "Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD: Services for the Public". Archives.gov. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD: Facility Information". Archives.gov. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ^ Kramer, Alan (June 4, 2007). "National Archives Opens Electronic Records Vault in Suitland" (Press release). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008.
  4. ^ [1]Fire That Destroyed Records At U.s. Archives Is Classified As Arson
  5. ^ "Nazi file found in open archive". New York Times. 14 May 1986

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