The personal files of World War II perpetrators in the National Archives of the Netherlands create a delicate balance between truth-finding and privacy protection, while there is time pressure for digitization and increased searchability.

The criminal records of people prosecuted for war crimes in the Netherlands after World War II are stored in the restricted Central Archives for Special Criminal Jurisdiction of the National Archives; these historical documents create a tension between the privacy of perpetrators and the truth-finding of relatives of Holocaust victims, while there is a time pressure to digitize the records and make them more searchable.—Apostrof Cinema