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Istoričari kao veštaci na prvim suđenjima vezanim za holokaust
Historians as Experts in the First Holocaust-Related Trials

Author(s): Vladimir P. Petrović
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: holocaust; trial; experts;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the transformations in historical expert witnessing in the early Holocaust-related trials. On the example of the Eichmann case and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, it tracks a shift in the historical expertise from the role of authentication of documents to the role of contextualization of cases, as experienced in the course of those proceedings.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 129-145
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English