Overview
- Swiss intelligence will open the Josef Mengele file to researchers under yet-to-be-set conditions.
- A Bern historian's complaint to the Federal Administrative Court triggered the reversal.
- The agency says the file includes protectable details from foreign services, so access will be limited.
- Officials tie the move to a 2001 Federal Council decision to liberalize archival access and a review of practices.
- Historians aim to verify whether Swiss authorities knew of the Auschwitz doctor's movements, including a disputed 1961 episode in Kloten.