...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It's time to be honest about what the world really was, and what it is now.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.