Chicken

Raul Hilberg is considered one of the formost experts on the
Holocaust.

After taking a drubbing and shooting himself in the foot at the 1985
Zundel trial, Raul Hilberg declines a request to be expert witness at
the 1988 trial. Here is his declination letter the Crown Attorney
John Pearson.


"I have grave doubts about testifying in the Zundel case again. Last
time, I testified for a day under direct examination and for three
days under cross-examination. Were I to be in the witness box for a
second time, the defense would be asking not merely the relevant and
irrelevant questions put to me during the first trial, but it would
also make every attempt to entrap me by pointing to any seeming
contradiction, however trivial the subject might be, between my
earlier testimony and an answer that I might give in 1988. The time
and energy required to ward off such an assault would be great, and I
am afraid that the investment of time alone would be too much, given
all the commitments and deadlines I am facing now."


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