History in Shambles

By Grace Dobush Premium

When the Stadtarchiv Köln—City Archive of Cologne, Germany—collapsed March 3, two people died, surrounding buildings were irretrievably damaged and more than a thousand years of records were buried in rubble.   The 38-year-old archive building contained 65,000 documents, the oldest dating to 922. Holdings—more than...

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