{"id":14178,"date":"2026-01-06T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=14178"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:55:43","slug":"iii-17-the-investigation-file-le-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/iii-17-the-investigation-file-le-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"examples &#8211; 22 &#8211; The Investigation File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Investigation File of the french war criminal Schneider<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a researcher, coming across this file in the archives was a soothing, emotionally relieving experience for me, because I was finally able to connect with a historical place and a historical reality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13550\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060450-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hear the archivists joking in the hallway, while outside swifts fly through the warm courtyards with shrill cries, hovering in the air, fluttering, and returning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13553\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1060451-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you go through the files, you reach this pivotal moment within yourself. You come to your senses, as if you had recovered from a long illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigation File of the french war criminal Schneider As a researcher, coming across this file in the archives was a soothing, emotionally relieving experience for me, because I was finally able to connect with a historical place and a historical reality. I hear the archivists joking in the hallway, while outside swifts fly through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-examples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14178"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17480,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions\/17480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}