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Item 1)With Webtrends, you don't have to worry the inability to scale.Omniture says too many e-vars will bog their system down – so call OmnitureCare:• http://blogs.omniture.com/2009/03/15/top-ten-tips-to-minimize-data-latency-inside-omniture-sitecatalyst"Did you know that even if you are not passing any data to a Conversion Variable (eVar) it is increasing your processing load? This is due to the fact that every time a Success Event takes place, it is associated to every enabled eVar, even if the value associated with it is “None.” Therefore, when I see clients thathave 20 eVars enabled, but are only actively using 2-3 of them I beg them todisable the eVars that are not being used so they can improve performance.”Webtrends data collection is separate from analysis, so collecting hundreds of variables which you might need to measure your business properly will not slow the Webtrends system down.Item 2)Cross-domain tracking is easy with Webtrends.Cross-domain tracking is difficult with Site Catalyst.Say there are three domains to be tracked. With SC each domain gets its own tag. Then if an aggregate analysis of the accumulated domains is desired, another tag needs to be placed across all domains.This may require another consulting engagement.However with Webtrends, the same tag tracks domains individually or in aggregate, no extra tagging required. With one tag, Webtrends reports across all of your domains for rollup reporting.Double tagging eats up your server calls twice as quickly. Sometimes they call this a secondary server call, and if you don't have any of those...you need to pay your Omniture rep.Item 3)With Webtrends, there is no limit to the number of variables you can collect.Last I heard, Adobe/Omniture limits the number of data variables for collection. A finite number of variables, like 75 s_props and 75 e_Vars – across all your domains - get consumed pretty quickly when they cannot be reused once they are established.These values have to be defined in the tag via a consulting engagement.The problem with this is customers with several domains end up fighting over who gets to use the limited number of s_props and e_Vars.The benefit with Webtrends, there is no limit to the number of variables.If you need another variable, use the naming convention WT. and set this as a meta tag or parameter - your choice. This is useful in tracking email, PPC, videos, AJAX, Flash, etc. Here are some examples:EMAIL LINK TRACKINGhttp://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=emailFeb14HeartLink1http://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=emailOct31OrangeLink2http://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=emailDec25WreathLink3http://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=emailNov25TurkeyLink4http://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=xt679306(encoded parameters can be decoded by a lookup file)Paid Search Tracking (simply set two parameters on the destination url):http://www.domain.com/index.jsp?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=googBlueFeb2012BONUS: Webtrends does not store campaign info in a cookie.The value here is that when the 2o7.net cookie gets deleted, so does the your campaign accuracy. (And why do they use the obscure 2o7.net obfuscation anyway?)Item 4)It doesn't have to be this crazy!Without any effort, Webtrends' tagging tracks secure https AND clear http traffic easily.However, ecommerce customers and others using SSL certificates should dread the following Site Catalyst process for implementing First Party Cookies.(If you had to repeat this 10 times in a decentralized organization with agencies,numerous developers, etc. - you could understand how muchadditional work this will put onto your organization.)Implementing SiteCatalyst with First-Party Cookies XE "First-Party Cookies"SiteCatalyst typically uses third-party cookies to enhance the collection of data on your web sites. Even though third-partycookies have been in use for over a decade and there is no inherent harm in using them, the practice has recently comeunder scrutiny. Some anti-spyware applications have been designed to delete third-party cookies, including the Omniturecookie set at the 2o7.net domain. In addition, some visitors to your web site may have their browsers configured to rejectthird-party cookies altogether because of privacy concerns. Omniture developed a way to help implement SiteCatalyst with first-party cookies instead of third-party cookies.NOTE: Implementing SiteCatalyst with first-party cookies should have no negative impact on your data collection. As a matter of fact, your data will even be more accurate.Specifically, this document offers the following information to help you during your SiteCatalyst implementation with firstparty cookies:NOTE: If your site does not use SSL (i.e. has no pages served via HTTPS), the steps to implement follow an abbreviated process. Please see Appendix A for the for non-SSL site implementations.Process ChecklistThe following checklist outlines the steps needed to implement SiteCatalyst with first-party cookies.Checklist to Implement with First-Party CookiesStep 1 Completion of first-party cookie request form by CustomerStep 2 Creation & delivery of Certificate Signing Request (CSR) by OmnitureStep 3 Creation of new CNAME records in DNS zone filed by CustomerStep 4 Purchase of SSL certificate performed by CustomerStep 5 Delivery of SSL certificate by CustomerStep 6 Installation of SSL certificate on Omniture data collection servers by OmnitureStep 7 Delivery of new data collection code (i.e. new JS file) to customer by OmnitureStep 8 Installation of new data collection code (i.e. new JS file) by CustomerWARNING!: Test the CNAME mappings before rolling the first-party cookie implementation live.WARNING!: Do not use the new JavaScript file until you have verified the following:Your SSL Certificate is in place on Omniture's data collection serversYour CNAME record is functioning properly (refer to Appendix B)WARNING!: Any time you have more than one JavaScript file that is sending data to a single report suite, you must update all JavaScript files simultaneously.Ongoing MaintenanceSince SSL certificates carry an expiration date, please provide Omniture with an SSL certificate 30 days in advance of theexpiration in order to ensure that no interruption in service occurs. If the SSL certificate expires, your visitors will receive awarning in their browsers.And if you fail, then this could be the result:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011438&source=rss_topic17Some visitors to PayPal's Web site may be getting unexpected security warnings and log-in problems when they attempt to access the site or their accounts, a spokesman confirmed...The problems appear to be connected to an SSL security certificate used by Omniture Inc., a company PayPal is using to collect aggregate data about people using its Web site, the PayPal spokesman said. SSL certificates are used by Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, to check the authenticity of a site and to let users know whether a site is spoofed or not. The spokesman said the problem affects a "small portion" of PayPal users.Furthermore, it is important to maintain FULL control of your SSL certificate as you do with Webtrends, and not hand that to Adobe or any other organization, lest security breaches occur. How likely is this? Just today (27-Aug-2011) Gmail got caught in the murky waters of SSL control with a hack called Man-In-The-Middle:http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2da6158b094b225a&hl=en...and...http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/30/iranian-government-said-to-be-using-mitm-hack-to-spy-on-gmail-other-google-services/ :...An MITM attack, or Man-In-The-Middle attack, is a cyberattack that allows an attacker to covertly intercept or even modify data as it is being transmitted between two computers over the Internet. Using a certificate issued on July 10th, 2011 by Dutch SSL certificate authority DigiNotar, Iranian hackers have reportedly been able to spy on communications sent via Gmail and other Google services for more than five weeks. DigiNotar revoked the compromised SSL certificate on Monday, however most browsers do not check to see if a certificate has been revoked by default. (more...)Item 5)Forewarned is forearmed:Do you pay additional for API calls? (With Webtrends, no.)How fast do you get the data when you make a call to their “warehouse”?How do you manage through the limitations in variables that can be passed? (Addressed above in item 3)How frequently do you have to go back and adjust the tags?Who has to do the work when you modify the tags?Omniture’s infrastructure was built purely for real-time analysis. (Sean's edit is to remove this part: ***start>>> Thus, the system is pod-based analyzes in a linear fashion—collection, processing and rendering are all part of a single, linear process. and<<<end***) As a result, the amount of data, depth of data and flexibility is significantly diminished, along with their ability to handle spikes in traffic.Do you know that there is a button in their interface that requires that you notify Omniture in advance if you will have a traffic spike?Discover is simply an additional product that they have to sell you to overcome the deficiencies in Site Catalyst. WebTrends' basic Analytics product does most of what Discover does.It is NOT an impediment to switch vendors. Omniture would have you believe that purely because you’ve had such a miserable time with tagging in Omniture—hard to get right, lots of customization, constant changes and updates, regularly having to swap variables to stay under the limits.

A2AThis article provides a fairly concise summary as to where the stolen assets went:Holocaust-Era Assets Records, Research, and Restitution- page on archives.govFrom the end of World War II until five years ago the Holocaust was primarily viewed as the greatest murder in history. And indeed it was. But since the spring of 1996 it has become ever more apparent that the Holocaust was also the greatest robbery in history. The Nazi-era witnessed the direct and indirect theft of well over $150 billion of tangible assets of victims of Nazi persecution.This evening I will be discussing this robbery, efforts to right the wrongs of the past, and the importance of archival research to the restitution and compensation process.The process of taking assets began with Aryanization of Jewish property in the 1930s; followed by the looting of real, personal, intellectual, and cultural property throughout the war; and the looting of gold from the central banks of occupied countries. The process even involved the taking the gold filings, rings, and other valuables of those murdered in the Final Solution.Art was a favorite target of the Nazis and the Nazis looted some 600,000 pieces. Many items were subsequently sold to raise funds to support the Nazi war machine.There was also the indirect loss of wealth by victims of Nazi persecution. To protect their assets many European Jews during the 1930s sent funds to one or more of the over 400 Swiss Banks. Many of the depositors who were victims of Nazi persecution did not survive the war and often neither did their heirs. Thus the Swiss banks, which never close an account, kept the deposits, estimated today as being worth over $1 billion. Additionally, survivors and heirs found it difficult, if not impossible, to withdraw funds for lack of a secret bank account number or the lack of a death certificate; something that the Nazis did not create at the death camps.Many Jews in the 1930s bought property and death insurance policies assuming that insurance would provide them or their heirs with financial protection. During the war, German authorities systematically confiscated the insurance policies of Holocaust victims, as well as cashing in policies once the insured person was murdered. Survivors and heirs after the war found it difficult, if not impossible, to have insurance companies honor policies. Often lack of a death certificate or lack of a copy of an insurance policy precluded payments.Another form of indirect loss of monies was the Nazi uses of forced and slave labor. Some 12 million people, many from Poland and Russia, were forced into labor on behalf of the Third Reich. Some were minimally compensated. Most were not.The Allies were well aware of the thefts taking place in Nazi Europe and did take action during and after the war to identify, locate, and recover Nazi looted assets. This was done to keep the Nazi war machine from using the looted assets to acquire items it needed to continue the war and to provide restitution to those who had lost property. During the course of tracking, recovering, and restituting the looted assets some 30 agencies of the US Government created well over 30 million pages of records. These records had an importance then for administrative, fiscal, and legal purposes. These same records certainly have an importance today.A most important concern of the Allies was the Nazi theft of some $6 billion dollars (in today's dollars) of central bank gold. The discovery of hidden gold in Germany in the last days of the war and subsequent negotiations with neutral countries that had acquired the looted gold, resulted in the Allies being able to recover about two-thirds of the stolen gold. Some of this gold was non-monetary gold, some of which had been re-smelted and merged with monetary gold and some was gold watches and wedding bands, as well as victim dental gold.After the war the Allies provided that the non-monetary gold be restituted to individuals through the auspices of an international refugee organization. The monetary gold was turned over to a Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold (TGC) that would decide how much gold would be returned to each country that had its central bank gold looted. The TGC, composed of American, British, and French representatives, restituted to claimant countries most of the gold in the 1950s.The advent of the Cold War, the restitution of most of the monetary gold, and other factors, resulted in diminishing interest in all the questions surrounding Nazi looted assets. It should be noted that immediately after the war, survivors were primarily concerned with putting their lives back together and did not have the energy or means to regain what was lost. And many Jews were reluctant to pursue what was rightfully theirs, mostly out of fear that their efforts would fuel anti-Semitism and because they did not want to relive the horrors of the Holocaust-era. Also, many initial claims were meet with resistance and obstruction from the holders of the assets, and thus subsequent efforts to regain property were never pursued. Few countries, companies, and banks, unfortunately, made any concerted efforts, if any at all, to find the heirs of victims.Some restitution and recovery of assets, however, was forthcoming. Many assets, such as cultural property and works of art, were recovered and restituted by the US Army occupiers in Germany, Austria, and Italy. The government of the Federal Republic of Germany began making substantial reparation payments to Holocaust survivors, heirs, and to the state of Israel and signed bilateral agreements with more than a dozen countries set up pensions and annuities for victims in western Europe. But, during the Cold War, the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe prevented Holocaust survivors and heirs from receiving such payments. There was some Jewish interest in dormant and closed bank accounts in Switzerland and some Swiss banks, pushed by Israel and others in the early 1960s, undertook a relatively inadequate attempt to ascertain how much they held and to return it. Identified and returned to depositors or their heirs, beginning in 1964, was about $2.5 million.Questions periodically arose about the restitution of assets, but not enough to cause a groundswell of international action. For all intents and purposes the issues surrounding looted assets exited from center stage. For 40 years there was not much interest in Nazi looted assets and almost no research.That all changed in early 1996 when Edgar Bronfman, head of the World Jewish Congress, asked Senator Alfonse D'Amato, the head of the Senate Banking Committee, to investigate the supposedly large quantities of dormant Jewish bank accounts in Swiss banks. Bronfman believed that there were billions of dollars in accounts and that the Swiss banks were making it difficult, if not impossible, for survivors of the Holocaust and heirs of victims of Nazi persecution to retrieve.When the senator agreed to look into the matter, it touched off a renewed interest in Holocaust-Era Assets. For the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) the interest first truly manifested itself in March 1996, when D'Amato sent a researcher to Archives II to look for information about Jewish dormant bank accounts in Swiss banks. Very early in her research the researcher located records that contained detailed information about Jewish deposits in a Swiss bank. Within a month of her discovery D'Amato's Senate Banking Committee held hearings on Nazi looted assets and the Swiss bank accounts and shortly thereafter began a major, worldwide research effort into Holocaust-Era assets.This research effort, along with diplomatic, political, legal, moral, and economic pressures, have prompted countries, organizations, and companies to come to gripes with the past and to agree to help in the process of righting the wrongs of the past. During the past several years progress has been accomplished in various aspects of Holocaust-Era assets.Early in October 1996 class action lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against the two largest Swiss Banks alleging that they had blocked the survivors' efforts to reclaim money that was directly deposited in the banks or that the Nazis had looted and stored in the banks. The plaintiffs sought $20 billion in compensation.Responding to the negative publicity, the Swiss in December 1996, created an independent commission of experts to spend five years studying the Swiss role in World War II. Early in 1997, the Swiss established a $200 million fund for Holocaust survivors. This fund would grow to over $400 million by 1999. Responding to economic and legal pressures, the Swiss Bankers Association and the Swiss government persuaded Paul Volcker, former head of the Federal Reserve Board, to head up an international committee to oversee the auditing of dormant bank accounts to ascertain how much of these accounts belonged to the Holocaust survivors and heirs. To assist Volcker the Swiss Government lifted, for five years, Swiss Bank Secrecy Laws. During the latter half of 1997 the Swiss began to publish names of Holocaust-Era dormant accounts. Eventually, in August of 1998, the Swiss Banks agreed to a $1.25 billion out of court settlement. Although the settlement had been reached, it still remained for the court to work out the details as to who would receive compensation. Those details were finalized last year. At the time the lawsuit had extended its original reach. In addition to Nazi victims with Swiss accounts, the settlement ultimately identified four other groups of potential beneficiaries, including those whose looted assets had found their way into Switzerland, slave laborers, and refugees who were turned away by Switzerland. Four Swiss insurers are adding $50 million to the settlement and over 35 Swiss companies, including food giant Nestle, whose wartime subsidiaries used slave labor are making financial contributions to the settlement fund, in the expectation it would cover any possible claims against them.During the summer of 1996 some prominent members of the British Parliament began taking an active interest in looted Nazi gold and they tasked the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with preparing a report on the Nazi looted gold. The report was quickly published and immediately it raised internationally questions about the gold, and indirectly, about the actions of Switzerland during the war. The British report would set in motion the U.S. Government getting involved, and providing political clout to the process of seeking the truth about the past and putting that information to work in the process of providing compensation to victims of Nazi persecution.During the late summer of 1996 Edgar Bronfman explained the Holocaust restitution issue to the President. Clinton agreed to help with the issue and to work with D'Amato. In early September 1996, the Clinton tasked Stuart E. Eizenstat, then Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, as well as Special Envoy of the Department of State on Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe, to prepare a report that would describe U.S. and Allied efforts to recover and restore gold the Nazis had looted from the central banks of occupied Europe, as well as gold taken from individual victims of Nazi persecution, and other assets stolen by Nazi Germany. To accomplish this task Eizenstat established in October an 11-agency Interagency Group on Nazi Assets. I was my agency's representative. Dr. William Z. Slany, the Department of State's Chief Historian, had the responsibility for drafting the group's report. He in turn asked me to prepare a finding aid to relevant records. Slany formed his research team, consisting of researchers from the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Justice, and State, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Reserve Board. They soon made the National Archives their home.In May 1997 the Interagency Group issued its report, with my 300-page finding aid serving as an appendix. The report, based primarily on NARA's holdings, focused on what U.S. officials knew about Nazi looting of gold and other assets and how the United States attempted to trace the movement of looted gold and other assets into neutral and non-belligerent nations, and to recover the assets from these nations as well as from occupied Europe. The report was quite critical of the Swiss and the other World War II neutrals.Within days of issuing its first report, the Inter Agency Group on Nazi Assets was asked to prepare another report dealing with the neutrals and their financial and economic dealings with the Axis. Thus, in the summer of 1997, its researchers from three federal agencies began to do their research again with NARA's assistance. As research was getting underway news stories, based on NARA's holdings, about the Vatican's Holocaust-Era assets involvement, particularly the assets stolen by the Croatian Utashi and sent to the Vatican, prompted President Clinton to direct Eizenstat, who at the time was the Under Secretary of State, to also study the fate of the assets seized by the Croatians.In late 1996, the TGC was in the process of deciding how to allocate the remaining $60 million worth of gold. The United States asked it to delay the final distribution until the non-monetary gold issue could be further studied, primarily to determine the degree which the monetary gold was tainted with non-monetary. At the London Gold Conference in December 1997, attended by representatives of 41 nations, countries that were entitled to the remaining TGC gold were asked not to take their final payment but instead donate it to a Nazi Persecutee Relief Fund. They were asked to do so because research at the National Archives and elsewhere had proven that some of the monetary gold was tainted with non-monetary gold, and thus should go to people rather than countries. Nazi victims who lived in the former Soviet Union, who are often referred to as "double victims," were the first to get aid from the fund because in many cases they did not get compensation that was paid to Holocaust survivors who lived in Western Europe. To get this fund established Eizenstat committed our Government to contribute $5 million even though the United States was not a TGC claimant. By the summer of 1998 some dozen countries had contributed their TGC share in the amount of over $50 million.The second Eizenstat report was issued in June 1998. The report provided a detailed analysis of the economic roles played by the neutral countries and the factors that shaped those roles. Prominent in the report was a focus on those countries' trading links with the Axis, as well as on their handling of looted assets, especially gold. Also addressed in the report was the fate of the Croatian Ustashi treasury and the Vatican's role during and immediately after the war. Also noted in the report was that the postwar negotiations that the Allies conducted with the wartime neutrals was protracted and failed to meet fully their original goals: restitution of the looted gold and the liquidation of German external assets to fund the reconstruction of postwar occupied Europe and to provide relief for Jews and other non-repatriable refugees. This resulted from the intransigence of the neutrals after the war, dissension within Allied ranks, and competing priorities stemming from the onset of the Cold War.Early 1997 witnessed a renewed interest in looted art, especially after Museums were being identified as possibly having and indeed having looted art. This interest prompted some museums, auction houses, and art dealers to undertake provenance research on their holdings. By the end of 1998, the search for looted art, according to two British authors, "had become the greatest treasure hunt in history." This may be an exaggeration but the search for looted art certainly became an important aspect of the art world. And several countries, including France, established commissions to look into the possibilities of looted art in their countries.In this country Congress during the spring of 1998 held hearings on the subject and in June the American Association of Museum Directors adopted guidelines calling for a review of their members' collections to identify works of art of dubious provenance. The international aspects of looted art and cultural property began in December 1998 with the four-day Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets that was held at the Department of State. Attending the conference were over 400 representatives from 43 countries and a dozen non-governmental organizations. A dozen principals dealing with looted art and cultural property were adopted at the conference. To determine how well countries were following the principals the Council of Europe sponsored another conference. This conference was held last October at Vilnius, Lithuania, at which representatives of 37 nations and 17 non-governmental organizations met to discuss looted cultural property. The Forum adopted a declaration that had six sections dealing with the restitution of looted cultural property.Since 1997 looted art has been clearly identified in numerous countries including the United States and various settlements regarding the looted art have been made.In October 1998 an International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims was established by Italian, German, French, and Swiss insurers, U.S. regulators and Jewish groups, to settle unpaid insurance policies. Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger heads the commission. To show their goodwill two of the major insurance companies Italy's Generali and Allianz of Germany set up a $150 million fund to cover claims. The Commission is working closely with the companies, and some progress has been made, such as last summer when Generali agreed to pay all valid claims from Holocaust survivors and heirs; to give the Commission access to its archives; and to post on its website names of the firm's policy holders.A lawsuit was initiated in March 1998 against Ford Motor Company for allegedly operating a slave labor operation at its Cologne plant during the war. During the course of 1998 and 1999 some 50 lawsuits were filed against more than 100 of German and Austrian companies for their slave labor practices. The plaintiffs in the suits asked for $20 billion in damages.The Swiss bank settlement prompted several top German firms to come forward and say they would set up a restitution fund and during 1999 the German government agreed to compensate Holocaust survivors in the former Soviet bloc, thereby reversing their Cold War policy against such compensation. To settle the various lawsuits, in July 2000 an agreement was signed by representatives from Germany, the United States, eastern Europe and Israel, and U.S. attorneys to provide former forced and slave laborers $4.8 billion, half from the German government and half from over 3,000 German companies. As a way of encouraging additional contributions the U.S. government agreed to give $10 million to the new slave labor fund.Between January 2000 and this past January France, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands agreed to pay some $1.5 billion dollars for compensation of various types, including seized property, forced labor, unpaid insurance policies, and seized bank accounts.Up to now I have spoken about the past and current efforts to right the wrongs of the past. The political, diplomatic, moral, economic, and legal pressures that have contributed to paying the victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs did not just happen in a vacuum. Without records and research, and NARA's assistance the progress that has been made to date and will continue to be made would not have happened.Since March 1996 the National Archives and Records Administration's Archives II Building in College Park, Maryland has been visited and/or contacted by well over one thousand researchers interested in records relating to Holocaust-Era assets. Many of those researchers have spent weeks, months, and even years at Archives II going through millions of documents. The high water point of Holocaust-Era assets researchers came on September 1, 1998, when there were 47 of them. Many of these researchers represented law firms engaged in litigation and many were foreigners. Foreign researchers and representatives of a dozen foreign commissions looking into their countries' handling of victim assets found NARA an important resource to supplement the information available in the archival records in their own countries. Representatives of foreign banks, governments, archives, and corporations have also come to do research.It started in 1996 with gold and Jewish bank accounts. In 1997 art works and insurance, and non-monetary gold [that is, victims' gold from the death camps, such as dental gold], and the role of the Vatican were added; in 1998 slave labor, alleged American and foreign bank misdeeds; looted archives and libraries; and Jewish communal and religious property were being studied. At the end of 1998 Lord Janner, who heads the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust, stated the "hunt for Nazi loot has turned into the greatest treasure hunt in history. We don't know where it will end." Since he made those remarks the research has broadened to encompass looted diamonds and securities, as well as the role of American corporations in their dealings with the Nazis.To assist researchers I began early in 1996 to prepare special finding aids to relevant records; first 3 pages; then 10 pages; then 125; and for the First Eizenstat Report in May 1997 a 300-page guide to the records. During the summer 1997 as the research widened to more countries and more subjects, there was a great desire for an expanded finding aid to relevant records. I produced a 300-page supplemental finding aid in the fall of 1997. It was placed on the Department of State's website in November 1997. During the winter of 1997-1998 I prepared a revised and enlarged finding aid. This finding aid, some 750-pages, was placed on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website in March 1998. In March 1999, NARA published my 1,100 page guide to some 15 million pages of records created or received by over 30 Federal agencies.To further assist researchers I was urged by the Department of State to have NARA hold a records and research-oriented conference the day after the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets ended. This one-day event, Symposium on Holocaust-Era Assets Records and Research, was held at Archives II on December 4, 1998. Over 400 people, including representatives of numerous foreign governments attended. Eizenstat gave the keynote address. He stated "It is truly remarkable to reflect on the sheer amount of research that is being conducted and the new archival sources that has been unearthed in just the past few years." Furthermore, he added "I am particularly proud to say that our country was a leader in this effort to advance the process of archival research…The National Archives…has become a focal point of research, scholarship, and remembrance into the issues surrounding Holocaust-era assets." He concluded his remarks by stating "The National Archives can be proud of the positive role it has played both in bringing justice, however belated, to the survivors and memory to the deceased." During the course of the day NARA launched it assets website.Growing out of the desire to declassify still-classified Government records Congress in October 1998 enacted the Nazi War Crimes Records Disclosure Act of 1998. This law required Federal agencies, including NARA, to review and recommend for declassification records relating to Nazi war crimes, Nazi war criminals, Nazi persecution, and Nazi looted assets. By the end of March over 3 million pages have been declassified and it is expected another 7 million pages will be declassified under the Act.By the summer of 1998, there were upwards of 20 national commissions looking at what had happened to assets in their respective countries. Many of those involved in the assets issue believed that the United States should have its own commission to look at Holocaust-Era assets that came into the control and/or custody of the United States Government. Congress reacted to this desire by enacting a law in July establishing the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust-Era Assets in the United States and in October President Clinton appointed Edgar Bronfman to chair the group. Also serving as members of the Commission were Eizenstat and eight members of Congress. The Commission's research staff, numbering over 20 individuals spent considerable time at the National Archives between the spring of 1999 and the last fall doing research. The Commission presented its report and recommendations to President Clinton in mid-January of this year.Early on the importance of records and getting to the truth was recognized. The records NARA held and its staff assistance was, and has continually been appreciated. This began in May 1997 in the first Eizenstat report. The author, Dr. Slany, in his preface wrote "All of the research depended directly upon the unfailing support, assistance, and encouragement of the…National Archives and Records Administration. Our work simply could not have been carried out without this assistance…" Senator D'Amato, on the floor of the Senate in June expressed his appreciation, stating "The National Archives at College Park has been nothing less than amazing… Their help was indispensable in establishing, continuing and expanding the research of the Committee."Eizenstat in December 1998 speaking about archival openness took the opportunity to thank NARA for its work in helping his interagency group and the foreign commissions. "NARA archivists," he said, "continue to provide extraordinary assistance and information to the many governmental and private researchers who have traveled to the Archives to consult documents available nowhere else in the world." Later in his talk he stated "I cannot fail to mention the truly remarkable measures taken by my own government: making available and fully accessible to researchers by May 1997 at the National Archives more than 15 million pages of documents-….And the work has gone forward without pause at the National Archives with new and important files being found, described, and made available for research."By the end of 1998, the importance of archives as a result of Holocaust-Era Assets research had been clearly demonstrated. Reporter John Marks in the December 14, 1998, issue of the U.S. News & World Report wrote, "since 1996, when the Holocaust restitution effort gained new momentum" archival institutions "have become drivers of world events. Their contents have forced apologies from governments, opened long-dormant bank accounts, unlocked the secrets of art museums, and compelled corporations to defend their reputations."During the past five much has been accomplished towards bringing justice and compensation to victims of Nazi persecution. But those working so hard to achieve the financial settlements know that no amount of money could ever compensate for the atrocities of World War II. And they also know that much still needs to be done, and done quickly as the number of Holocaust survivors decreases every year. Many issues, both old and new, are still unresolved. Thus, undoubtedly, interest in Holocaust-Era assets issues will continue for years, if not decades. And just as certainly, archival research throughout the world will accompany the interest in the various asset-related issues.Archival research at NARA coupled with research undertaken elsewhere, have contributed immeasurably to countries, corporations, banks, and other institutions, being more capable of addressing their pasts and accepting their current responsibilities. Archives have the past five years and will in the future serve as important resources in the search for truth and justice, and as Stuart Eizenstat frequently says, turning history into justice.There's also a good deal more information written inUnholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks: Mark Aarons, John Loftus: 9780312181994: Amazon.com: BooksLoftus traces some of the funds. It is especially damning to all parties involved.

Important:This article covers removing the System Reserved partition created when installing Windows 7/8.x/10 on a MBR drive. Do not attempt to perform this procedure on UEFI systems where Windows is installed on a GPT drive.Problem:Windows setup created a System Reserved partition and installed the booting files on it. As a result, booting directly from the Windows partition is not possible.Cause:During the installation of Windows, a previously created primary NTFS partition was not specified as the destination. Windows Setup created the System Reserved partition containing the booting files and a second partition containing Windows. The size of this partition varies depending on the Windows version, but is usually 100MB to 500MB.Solution:Copy the Windows booting files and Windows RE (Windows 8.x/10 only) to the Windows partition, apply the necessary BCD file corrections, and (optionally) remove the System Reserved partition.Important: The Windows booting files must reside on a partition with a NTFS cluster size of 4K (the default size). If your Windows partition does not have 4K clusters you will not be able to move the booting files to it. An example would be that you've formatted the Windows partition with 8K clusters. More information can be found in this Microsoft KB article.Note: If you are using a version of Windows that supports BitLocker (e.g. Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise, Windows 10 Pro) and are currently using or plan to use BitLocker, do not remove the System Reserved partition.Note: These instructions assume that the Windows partition is a primary partition. If Windows is installed to a logical partition, removing the System Reserved partition will most likely result in a non-booting system unless using a boot manager such as BootIt BM.Instructions:Part 1 - Copy the Booting Files and Configure the Windows Partition for BootingBoot into Windows. If Windows boots to the Start screen (e.g. Windows 8) go to the Desktop.To allow access to the System Reserved partition, use Disk Management to assign a drive letter to it:Press WinKey+R (press and hold the Windows key and press R) to open the Run dialog.Type diskmgmt.msc into the Open box and click the OK button. The Disk Management window will be displayed (may take several seconds to scan the drives).Right-click on the System Reserved partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths... from the pop-up menu.Note: If the System Reserved partition is hidden the label won't be shown (it will be blank) and the option to change the drive letter will be disabled. The partition will most likely be displayed as "100 MB Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" (the size shown will vary depending on the version of Windows) and be located at the start of the drive, prior to the Windows partition. Please see Appendix A at the end of this article to unhide the partition.Click the Add button.An available drive letter will automatically be selected. You can keep it or select a different one. When finished, click the OK button. In this example, E: will be assigned to the System Reserved partition.Leave the Disk Management window open (it will be needed again in later steps).Note: If an AutoPlay window or pop-up appears, just close it or ignore it.Press WinKey+E to open Explorer.Make note of the drive letter assigned to the System Reserved partition and the letter assigned to the Windows partition. In this example, C: is the Windows partition and E: is the System Reserved (booting) partition.Note: It's a good idea to give the partitions meaningful labels. This can help you tell them apart more easily. For example, the label for the Windows 7 partition might be Win7. This can be especially helpful when trying to tell which partition is which from the Command Prompt.Close Explorer once you've determined the drive letter assignments.Start an Administrator mode Command Prompt. To do this in Windows 7, click on the Start button, then All Programs, then Accessories. Right-click on the Command Prompt item and select Run as administrator from the pop-up menu. In Windows 8.x/10, press WinKey+X (or right-click the lower-left corner of the Desktop) and click Command Prompt (Admin) on the pop-up menu.If a UAC prompt is displayed, click the Yes button.Windows 8.x/10 only: Disable the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). Run the following command:reagentc /disableVerify that the winre.wim file was correctly moved to the C:\Windows\System32\Recovery folder by running the following command (if your Windows partition is not C:, use the letter that's correct for your system). You should see the file in the directory listing.dir /a C:\Windows\System32\RecoveryNote: This step is necessary because WinRE also needs to be moved from the System Reserved partition to the Windows partition. Leaving WinRE enabled will result in a broken/unusable WinRE after this procedure has completed. If the above command does not report success, you may need to manually copy the WinRE files (in the hidden \Recovery\{GUID} or \Recovery\WindowsRE folder on the System Reserved partition) to an alternate location.Unload the BCD registry hive by running the following command:reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000Copy the bootmgr file from the System Reserved (booting) partition to the Windows partition (make sure to use the drive letters as assigned on your computer). Run the following command:robocopy e:\ c:\ bootmgrCopy the Boot folder from the System Reserved (booting) partition to the Windows partition. Run the following command:robocopy e:\Boot C:\Boot /sThe booting files have now been copied. If you wish to verify that they were copied correctly, run the following command (make sure to use the drive letter of the Windows partition):dir c:\ /ahIf the bootmgr file and the Boot folder show up in the list, the procedure was successful.To update the copied BCD file so it will boot correctly, run the following command:bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:Update the Memory Diagnostic entry by running the following command:bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {memdiag} device partition=C:Note: If your Windows partition is assigned a letter other than C:, make sure to use that value instead.Note: If you are using BootIt BM, you can use the BCD Edit feature to update the BCD file instead of running the above commands. See Part 2 - Step 3 for details.Close the Command Prompt window.Remove the drive letter assignment from the System Reserved partition and set the Windows partition as the Active (booting) partition.Return to Disk Management (reopen, if not left open in Step 2).Right-click on the System Reserved partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths... from the pop-up menu.Click the Remove button.Click the Yes button to confirm the change.Right-click on the Windows partition and select Mark Partition as Active from the pop-up menu.Click the Yes button to confirm the change. You should see the Active tag move from the System Reserved partition to the Windows partition.Close the Disk Management window.Windows should now be configured to boot properly from its own partition. Restart the computer.Note: If you receive an error message upon booting, the boot sector of the Windows partition may need to be repaired (see How to Rebuild the Boot Sector for Windows Vista and Windows 7/8.x/10).Windows 8.x/10 only: Enable the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). To do this, open an Administrator Command Prompt (if necessary, refer to instructions in Step 6) and run the following command:reagentc /enableThe command should be successful if the previous disable was successful. On systems where TBWinRE was used to update WinRE it is not necessary to rerun TBWinRE after enabling WinRE (the TBWinRE configuration will be retained).Part 2 - Update BootIt BM to Boot WindowsNote: If you are not using BootIt BM as your boot manager, you can skip this part of the instructions.Reboot to BootIt BM.Edit the relevant Windows Boot Menu entry. Select the Windows partition as the booting partition. Save the change.If you didn't run the BCD update commands in Part 1 - Step 12, go into Partition Work and select the Windows partition. Click the BCD Edit button. Select the Boot section. Configure the appropriate entry (e.g. Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10) by following the instructions under the Important BCD Settings section of the article How to Use the BCD Edit Feature of BootIt BM.Part 3 - Remove the System Reserved PartitionNote: This part is optional. Removing the partition will only gain 100-500MB unallocated space. However, it will free up one primary partition slot.Important:Windows 8.x/10 users may wish to verify that the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) functions correctly from the Windows partition before deleting the System Reserved partition. If disabling and enabling WinRE (per Part 1 instructions) failed, the winre.wim file may exist only on the System Reserved partition (in the hidden \Recovery\{GUID} or \Recovery\WindowsRE folder). Deleting the partition in this case would result in losing the file (unless a backup image has been created or the files have been copied elsewhere).Deleting the partition can be done from either Windows Disk Management or BootIt BM.Using Disk Management:If Windows hasn't been rebooted since the completion of the Part 1 instructions, restart Windows. It should boot normally.Start Disk Management (reference Part 1 - Steps 2a through 2b, if necessary).Verify that the Windows partition is now tagged as both the System and the Active partition. The System Reserved partition should just be tagged as Primary Partition.Right-click on the System Reserved partition.Select Delete Volume... from the pop-up menu.Click the Yes button to confirm the deletion.The space used by the System Reserved partition should now be shown as Unallocated.Using BootIt BM:Boot into BootIt BM.Enter Maintenance mode.Click Partition Work on the desktop.Select the System Reserved partition and then click the Delete button.Click the Yes button to confirm the deletion.If you now wish to resize the Windows partition to use this space, proceed as follows:Select the Windows partition and then click the Slide button.Enter 0 in the Free Space Before box.Click the OK button.Read the warning and then click the Continue button to proceed.Once the slide has completed, verify that the Windows partition is still selected and then click the Resize button.Click the OK button to error check the file system.Adjust the New Size value to what you want. Setting it to the Max Size value will resize the partition to use all available free space.Click the OK button.Read the warning and then click the Continue button to proceed. When the resize and error check has completed, click the Close button.Return to the Boot Menu and boot into Windows.Appendix A - Unhiding the System Reserved PartitionIf the System Reserved partition is hidden you will not be able to assign a drive letter to it until it's unhidden. This can be accomplished in several ways:Using BootIt BM:Boot to the BootIt BM boot media and enter Partition Work.Select the drive with the System Reserved partition.Select the System Reserved partition.Click the Properties button.Click the Unhide button.Click OK to close the Properties window and then click OK to close Partition Work.Remove the BootIt BM boot media and reboot into Windows.Using DISKPART:While still in Windows, start an Administrator Command Prompt.Type diskpart at the prompt and press ENTER. DISKPART will start and display the DISKPART> prompt.Type list disk and press ENTER. Note the disk number of the drive that contains the System Reserved partition. Note that the disk numbers correspond to the disk numbers shown in Disk Management. Disk 0 will be used in this example.Type sel disk 0 and press ENTER (make sure to use the correct disk number for your system).Type list par and press ENTER. The System Reserved partition should show up in the list (e.g. Primary, 100 MB). Partition 1 will be used in this example. If you have selected the wrong disk just go back to Step 3 and try a different disk.Type sel par 1 and press ENTER.Type detail par and press ENTER. Assuming the correct partition has been selected, it should show Type:17, Hidden:Yes, Active:Yes, and the offset. It should also report that there is no volume associated with the partition.IMPORTANT: Make sure you have selected the correct partition before proceeding.Type set id=7 and press ENTER. This will change the partition type from 0x17 (Hidden NTFS) to 0x07 (NTFS) and unhide it.Type detail par and press ENTER. Verify that the partition is now type 7 and not hidden. Volume details and the partition's label should be displayed.