http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210311-154137-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/historians-on-trial/ Historians on Trial Wójcik, Anna eng 2021-03-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Academic Freedom EU Poland Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 9 February 2021, the District Court in Warsaw ruled that two prominent Holocaust researchers must publicly apologize for statements published in a book about the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland during the Second World War. The lawsuit is an example of strategic litigation aimed at intimidating researchers and exercising a chilling effect on the debate in Poland due to the involvement of an organization close to the government and framing of the case in pro-government public and private media. In March, courts in Poland handed judgments in two other important strategic lawsuits brought on criminal charges.