Eyewitness report

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An eyewitness report is the description of an event by a person who saw and experienced the event directly. An eyewitness report can, in addition to expressing the visually perceived course of the event, also contain descriptions of how the person subjectively experienced what happened. It is essential that your own memories of what happened are described and not just reproduced something based on reports from third parties. It is important to note the differentiation from the term contemporary witness .

literature

  • Amelie Rösinger, Gabriela Signori (ed.): The figure of the eyewitness. History and truth in a cross-disciplinary and cross-epoch comparison. Konstanz, UVK 2014, ISBN 978-3-86764-515-7 (with nine articles from a historical perspective and one article on media eyewitnesses and contemporary witnesses of the 20th and 21st centuries)

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