mattatwork's Journal: Nazi Documents Released to the public

According ot CBS News, 50 million pages detailing the lives of some 17 million victims of the holocaust have been released to the public. They detail everything from Gestopo warrants for arrest, to the movements of the victims from their homes to the death camps. It was chilling reading of how on Hitler's birthday, a prisoner was shot and killed every two minutes. Strange also was the intricate details they kept of the prisoner's health recording small things like lice.
Sadly, after a backlog of 400,000 requests to find information about loved ones, the archive was released to the public. For issues of privacy, it no one was allowed access to them.
I wonder two things: 1) Who in their right mind could think that a small staff maintaining these files could easily handle requests relating to 17 million people? and 2) will this finally silence the holocost deniers (ie Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)