History in Ruins: Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians

SPIEGEL ONLINE – “The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on Tuesday buried more than a millenium’s worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city’s past is grim.”

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