Juridical memory making and the transformation of historial expert witnessing: contextualizing the Eichmann Case and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

• Autores: Vladimir Petrovic
• Localización: Erinnern und Vergessen / coord. por Oliver M. Brupbacher, Nadine Grotkamp, Jana Osterkamp, Tilmann Röder, Stefan Ruppert, David Sörgel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-595-4, págs. 326-347
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has been frequently noted that prominent trials make history, not just by rendering important judgments and by influencing the societal development, but also by offering a powerful account which captures the attention of the people and which affects the way societies remember and forget. The impact of such trials on the collective memory has raised a set of legal, moral, political and historical questions which became very urgent in the light of the collapse of communism, the global transition to democracy and the legal reflections on the crimes of past regimes. The aim of this article is to address an important, yet frequently overlooked aspect of the present debate: the transformation of the role of historical expert witnessing under the influence of juridical memory making.