Last month Hanoi announced that it would provide Defense Department investigators with full access to military museums and war archives.
But others nations with important war archives, including East Germany, Czechslovakia and Romania, have been less cooperative.
The real surprise in newly opened cold war archives is how few surprises have thus far emerged.
The Doctor uses his freedom and influence to visit the war archives, housed in the former British Museum, hoping to pinpoint where history diverged.
Numerous testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials along with records in German, Italian and Austrian war archives bear witness to atrocities perpetrated against the civilian population.
From 1897 to 1914 he worked as a cartographer at the Militärgeographischen Institute (Militarygeographic institute) in Vienna, afterwards in the war archive.
Using family connections, he has arranged for Max to view the Delius file at the war archives.
In researching a novel, he would briefly visit war archives but spent most of his time collecting and analyzing artifacts: postcards, maps and pictures from magazines.
Wirilander was 1935-1958 an official at the Finnish war archives.
We discover how Rogosin and partner James Vaughan collected rare materials over a two-year period from war archives around the world despite enormous difficulties and financial pressures.