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What are sources? Sources are “all texts, objects or facts from which know­ledge of the past can be gained.”1 This is Paul Kirn’s much-quo­­ted defi­ni­ti­on of what his­to­ri­cal sources are. His­to­ri­ans the­r­e­fo­re defi­ne sources as all evi­dence of human activity […]

Why work with tes­ti­mo­nies of per­se­cu­ted peo­p­le? To this day, the histo­ry of per­se­cu­ti­on pro­ces­ses of all kinds is often recon­s­truc­ted main­ly through sources left behind by per­pe­tra­tors. Inde­ed, the­se docu­ments can pro­vi­de a deep insight into the plan­ning and execution […]