role-of-imagination-in-history

  • What role should imagination play in historical research?

    Documentation in the Nazi State Office (NSO), recording the details of the major deportation of Romanies from Osnabrück on 1 March 1943, lists fifty-four people deported to Auschwitz. The document records their names, ages, places of birth, and relationships, alongside an inventory of each person’s personal property.[1] Empirical facts, from single sources such as these, are…

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