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Microfilming of documents began during and right after the war and continued till 1947. Millions of pages were photographed and tons of actual documents were removed. German historians and the Deutsches Museum were in talks with the Americans for decades regarding captured documents. Some were released and it appeared that others were held back due to their classification level. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the Deutsches Museum began receiving some documents but again, some were held back until the end of the 1990s. An example: A highly classified report prepared by the Army Security Agency was not declassified until 2009.