Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (The Ministry and the Past: German Diplomacy in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic) is an eight hundred and eighty page report released by the German Foreign Office and published by Karl Blessing Verlag on October 28, 2010. It alleges new revelations of the Ministry's involvement in the Holocaust.

History

The report was commissioned by former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer

Joschka Fischer

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...

 in 2005 and prepared for German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle

Guido Westerwelle

Guido Westerwelle [] is a German liberal politician, who, since 28 October 2009, has been serving as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and who was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011. He is the first openly gay person to hold either of those positions...

. The report's findings were to be incorporated into training for future German diplomats.

The report has been published commercially, going on sale before it was delivered to Westerwelle
and available for €34,95 at some exchanges.

Skepticism

The report has been met with skepticism, with TIME

Time

Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

magazine questioning the 65-year delay of the charges.