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Constituting a unique source of information on matters related to acts of persecution by the National Socialist regime and to displacements of persons as a result of the atrocities of the Second World War in Europe, the International Tracing Service, which has its seat at Bad Arolsen, shall continue to act as an international centre for conservation, preservation, cataloguing and indexing of the archives and documents held at its premises, in order to facilitate tracing of victims, research, remembrance and commemoration, judicial support and other tasks within its competence.