Robert Jan Van Pelt > Quotes

“Works of architecture were, in that context, embodiments of the ideals on which the life of institutions depended.”
― Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial

“He had made clear that it would be foolish to require for each historical question the presence of a unique type of document with a specific sort of use.”
― Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial

“had come to accept that the court was an important forum where society, through battle, finds out and defines what it stands for.”
― Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial

“No single piece of evidence can “prove” the existence of any historical event.”
― Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial

“Here it is important to note that a basic rule in the interpretation of historical evidence is that any piece of evidence depends upon the context from which it is taken.”
― Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial