The Globalization of the Historian as an Expert Witness

Abstract

I start this chapter by determining five separate waves of historical expert testimony. Of these five I discuss two categories of predominantly European trials where historians have been active as expert judicial witnesses. These categories consist of the Eichmann trial, the German Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trials, and the Ludwigsburg Paradigm, the French Vichy trials, and the Holocaust denial trials like Irving v. Lipstadt.