The National Archives (NA) warns on its website about errors in the list of names of people who appear in the Central Archives for Special Legal Procedure (CABR) as suspected of collaboration with the German occupier in the Second World War. The CABR page states that not all persons in the name index have been suspected or accused.
According to Karin, it is possible that witnesses, who also appear in the charged war archive, have been accidentally identified as suspects.
The NA’s warning further states that “the index is based on the card system of special justice. This also includes cards of persons who were not suspects or have been accused, but who nevertheless ended up in the card system.” The archive could not be reached by ANP for a response on Sunday afternoon.
The list was published on Thursday by the War for the Judge project. The CABR itself was to become fully public and partly digitally searchable for everyone from January 2, but that did not happen.
After a warning from the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) about privacy risks, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) postponed the publication of the paper archive and decided that the online archive can soon only be viewed under certain conditions from the reading room of the National Archive.