“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth—not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”
—Shelby Foote
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THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF FORMER BELSEN GUARDS, LUNEBURG, SEPTEMBER 1945
The interior of the Court Room under construction in the Town Gymnasium in Lüneburg, ten days before the start of the trials ( My families home town)
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Young couples at a dance. Photograph by Jerry Cooke. Russia, October 1958.
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