US senate urges quick action by six European countries to open vast Nazi archives

The US senate is urging quick action by six countries to allow the opening of a secret Nazi archive holding millions of pages that document the lives and deaths of millions of World War II concentration camp inmates.

In a resolution passed Wednesday, the Senate urged a the international commission that controls access to the archives to speed up at its meeting next month in Amsterdam, Netherlands, a process to make them public. (AP)