I was wondering what has historically been the reaction to this? I've been wondering about what will happen in 2039-45 when documents about WW2 come out. Would the informations release cause huge reactions? Or is time a healer, and when this sort of thing happens, do people leave the past in the past?
I might be wrong, but I understood it to be 25 or 50 years.
(h) Not later than 3 years from the effective date of this order, all records exempted from automatic declassification under paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section shall be automatically declassified on December 31 of a year that is no more than 50 years from the date of origin, subject to the following:
(1) Records that contain information the release of which should clearly and demonstrably be expected to reveal the following are exempt from automatic declassification at 50 years:
(A) the identity of a confidential human source or a human intelligence source; or
(B) key design concepts of weapons of mass destruction.
(2) In extraordinary cases, agency heads may, within 5 years of the onset of automatic declassification, propose to exempt additional specific information from declassification at 50 years.
Many documents from WW2 have already been released: 1, 2, but they have not all been digitized.