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Luchterhandt at the Berlin National Archives
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The Black Forest and the town of Oberried, near the Barbara Tunnels
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entrance to Barbara Tunnels
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Julie Wiechers is my guide – she’s from Germany’s Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance.
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The long, dimly lit tunnel on the way to the archives
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the red vault sealing the entrance to the archive
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the combination lock goes from one to one hundred
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Bjorn Matzken, head of security, in the archives
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demonstration of how film is stored inside the barrels
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Wiechers shows an example of the microfilm in the archives
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closeup of microfilm
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barrels in the archives2
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barrels are numbered but the contents are not in any order
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barrels in the archives
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Luchterhandt at the Berlin National Archives2